This week's BETB features commentary on: 

Satellite derived bathymetry aids fish farming, via POBonline.com

Seafood giant tests technology to prevent illegal fishing, worker abuse, via NewsDeeply

New big data project to enhance safety at sea, via safety4sea.com

China wants to start testing drone ships in the South China Sea, via SFgate.com

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World's first electric container barges to sail from European ports this summer, via The Guardian.

Mass buy-in needed for new fish tracking technology to work, via RNZ.co.nz

Lack of big data weakens efforts to restrain illegal fishing in Africa, via Undercurrent News

Fish In Protected Areas Found 4 Times More Than Elsewhere, via The International Business Times

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Aquaculture startup ecosystem takes a step forward with new accelerator, via agfundernews.com

Can satellite surveillance help end slavery in the seafood industry?, via modernfarmer.com

Scientists working to predict fish-rich areas much in advance, via tribuneindia.com

Study finds strong support for ocean protection, via phys.org

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Poachers shoot down anti-poaching drone in the Gulf of California, via the LA Times

Houthi Forces capture US Navy undersea drone off Yemen, via The Asian Times

In South America, are the tides turning against illegal fishing?, via Conservation International

Bangladesh is thinking big by thinking blue, via blogs.worldbank.org

10 technologies to shake up maritime in 2018, via marinemec.com

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How data sharing is stopping illegal fishing in the Indian Ocean (via Pacific Mag)

The perfect storm called artificial intelligence and geospatial big data (via Geo Awesomeness)

AI for port logistics (via Mer et Marine)

UK releases Code of Practice for autonomous vessels (via Safety4Sea.com) 

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Shocking photo shows Caribbean Sea being 'choked to death by human waste' (via The Telegraph)

ECDIS systems are ‘not intuitive to use’ – Marine Accident Investigation Branch (via Digital Ship)

UK launches new aquaculture research centre (via Undercurrent News)

Tracing system an issue for IUU fishing (via the Bangkok Post)

PM hails ‘massive breakthrough’ in SIDS classification (via The St Lucia Times)

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Just 10 River Systems Contribute Up to 95 Percent of Plastic in Oceans (via howstuffworks)

The High-Tech Tools That Could Save Blue Whales From Ship Collisions (via NewsDeeply.com)

Maersk Line: Digitalization Is a Must If You Want to Survive (via World Maritime News)

Robots Are Collecting Data, Killing Predators on the Great Barrier Reef (via NewsDeeply.com)

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World’s First Floating Wind Farm Opens Up Off Scotland (via gCaptain)

Project Loon's LTE balloons are floating over Puerto Rico (via Engadget)

Tanker group says it faced cyber attack in July (via tankershipping.com)

NOAA’s Office Of National Marine Sanctuaries And Liquid Robotics Collaborate To Protect Vulnerable Marine Sanctuaries And Ecosystems (via oceanleadership.org)

Only 0.5% of South Africa’s marine territory under protection (via www.TimesLive.co.za)

This week’s BETB features commentary on:

• Amazing maps show the world as you've never seen it (via The Telegraph)
• Small satellite market worth USD 7.53 billion by 2022 (via Markets and Markets)
• SRT leads with new OCEAN-SCAN satellite vessel detection and tracking system (via BusinessWire)
• Project Loon's balloons to bring cell service to Puerto Rico (via Axios.com)
• There’s enough wind energy over the oceans to power human civilization, scientists say (via The Washington Post)
• Insurers tighten net on illegal fishing (via gCaptain)

This week’s BETB features commentary on:

• World View successfully launches its first stratollite from its Tucson HQ (via TechCrunch)
• Effective marine protection: More than just lines on a map (via National Geographic)
• Coastal creatures are crossing oceans floating on makeshift rafts of plastic debris, warn scientists (via the Telegraph)
• Why we should use the tech start-up model to solve environmental problems (via mnn.com)
• Navigational Safety Efforts Continue in SOMS (via World Maritime News)