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Illegal fishing is a major problem throughout the world. Above, an illegal fishing catch of finned sharks in Palau, Micronesia.

introduction of AI may violate their privacy and not always provide an accurate picture of their job performance. Environmental Protection: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States estimates that up to $23 billion worth of seafood is stolen from our oceans annually by illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. To stop this theft, Google created Global Fishing Watch, an initiative that uses AI and satellite data to determine in real-time if illegal fishing is occurring. The technology creates an average of 22 million data points each day that allow analysts—with the assistance of machine learning—to identify why a specific commercial vessel is at sea.

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