Christopher Costello

Global Fishing Watch, Inc. is an American company that creates and shares knowledge about human activity at sea to enable fair and sustainable use of our ocean. The non-profit company is based in Washington. The company promotes transparency to enable a new era of ocean governance. Fishing Watch is working to improve ocean governance through data sharing, research, and fisheries transparency. The company creates map visualizations, data, and analysis to enable scientific research and transform ocean management for a sustainable ocean through increased transparency. The company was founded in 2015 by Jacqueline Savitz, Brian Sullivan, John Amos, Andrew F. Sharpless. Tony Long has been the CEO of the company since 2017.