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

This week's BETB features commentary on: 

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)

This week’s BETB features commentary on:

• Are you ready for that jelly? Why it’s time to start eating jellyfish (via theguardian.com)
• UN maritime agency spotlights link between shipping and sustainable development (via UN.org)
• Operationalizing the Blue Economy in Small States: Lessons from the Early Movers (via cigionline.com)
• The 3 Vital Keys That Will Make Autonomous Shipping a Reality (via asvglobal.com)
• Maritime CIO Forum Rotterdam 2017 (via our good friends at digitalship.com)