Fighting The Scourge Of Blast Fishing

ShotSpotter has two environmental initiatives which have shown great technical promise – protecting rhinos in Africa from poaching and locating fish bomb blasts in the tropics. The poaching initiative will be discussed in another blog while protecting tropical reefs and communities from Blast Fishing is discussed here.

Blast Fishing, scarcely known in Europe and North America, is a pernicious practice threatening a majority of tropical reefs and the food supply of a billion people. Fish blasters take advantage of the efficiency bombing above reef areas contrasted to traditional methods of netting or spearing.  But by bombing over the reefs they destroy the reefs and hence the homes of the fish, which takes years to recover.  The text and figures and videos below give examples of this worldwide scourge.

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