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There are several groups working on IUU fishing - I worked on Skylight some at Vulcan: https://vulcan.com/skylight

Lots of opportunity to help! Illegal fishing is the #1 contributor to slavery worldwide and is in the top 3 financial crimes.

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How do you get to work for something like this? Become a software dev for the UN? Vulcan itself are based in Seattle it appears: https://vulcan.com/Careers.aspx

Any European counterparts?

Generally most remote sensing companies work on projects like this (often grant funded PoCs that never see widespread adoption...), since environmental crime is one of the easiest things to identify using satellite imagery and tracking data.

EARSC.org would be a good starting point for some European companies.

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