SAFET Blog
Bubba Cook Award for Emerging Technology 2026
Congratulations to this year’s winner of the new Bubba Cook Award for Emerging Technology: Riki Macmillan! 🏆 Riki (on the left, holding the prize ⛵) is a Graduate Research Student…
Ecology Action Centre’s Holly Isnor on how electronic monitoring is helping keep a century-old fishery alive
In this SAFET blog series, we spotlight the organizations behind the global technology success stories highlighted in our Sea Tech in Motion project map. We recently connected with Holly Isnor,…
BFAR, British Embassy Manila to co-host SAFET 2026, positioning the Philippines at the forefront of fisheries technology and innovation
QUEZON CITY, PHILIPPINES — 15 July 2026 — The Philippine government, through the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) and the British Embassy Manila are set to…
Seafood traceability: Why it matters and how tech is helping solve its biggest hurdle
The global push to know where seafood really comes from Every year, roughly 20% of wild-caught fish enters global markets as illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) catch — seafood with…
Fishing’s digital reckoning
AI, underwater monitoring and predictive analytics are transforming one of the world’s last analogue industries For decades, commercial fishing has remained one of the world’s least digitised food production systems,…
Global Food Traceability Center’s Blake Harris on the new tech tools driving data interoperability
The Center’s open source Traceability Driver is already converting traceability data into common formats — and a new AI-based data aggregation tool is in beta-testing now In this SAFET blog…
Odaku’s Xavier Lawrance on the power of community-backed marine navigation tech
Vessel monitoring tools work best when they work for small-scale fishers, not against them In this SAFET blog series, we spotlight the organizations behind the global technology success stories highlighted…
Vessel tracking: Transparency for sustainable fisheries
How vessel tracking brings the world’s fishing fleets into view Understanding what happens at sea is key to protecting it. While most industrial fishing vessels are already tracked by governments…
CatchCam’s Tom Rossiter on reliable underwater monitoring as the key to ‘precision fishing’
How underwater cameras and sensors systems are actively helping crews make smarter, more sustainable decisions about how they fish In this SAFET blog series, we spotlight the organizations behind the…
Electronic monitoring: Critical eyes and ears for sustainable fisheries
A quick guide to electronic monitoring and how the technology enables more sustainable management of fisheries and the ocean environment From the deck of a fishing vessel to the supply…