Tech solutions to tackle overfishing, labor abuse at sea

Saturday, November 26, 2016 - 04:31 in Earth & Climate

Fishing boats used high-tech systems to find vast schools of fish for decades, depleting stocks of some species and leading to the complete collapse of others. Now more than a dozen apps, devices and monitoring systems aimed at tracking unscrupulous vessels and the seafood they catch are being rolled out—high-tech solutions some say could also help prevent labor abuse at sea.

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