User:Becha/Oceans of Data

Greenpeace Hackathon notes

28-30. November 2014

• http://www.greenpeace.nl/hackathon
• https://github.com/greenpeace/oceansofdata

Goal: Save the Oceans

Sub-goal: Help someone in our community by exposing hidden information

Ideas

Doable suggestions

• Crowdsourcing // mass participation
  • make a survey/poll to request extra information from the crowds: about "monster boats"?

• Education
  • Greenpeace could inform consumer association (consumentenbond, voedingscentrum) about "good" fish coming from these MSC certified fisheries http://www.voedingscentrum.nl/encyclopedie/msc.aspx
  • Greenpeace could mobilize their millions of supporters to write to these consumer associations -- or to boycott buying "dirty" fish...

• Create a graph/diagram of all the companies that PP owns (like "open oil" graph!), and their contracts / customers...

• FOIA (requests)
  • Request that IMDEA publishes where do they get the funding from
  • Ask for court documents (if there was a court-case)

• Ask for (more) whistleblowers to come out from those companies!! (MSC, PP, BLE, NVWA, ships...)
  • http://www.adviespuntklokkenluiders.nl
  • ... and make a crowd funding capping for whistleblowers! (dquinn)

• Share your data with others:
  • http://www.oneworld.nl/atlas/geirrigeerde-landbouwgrond
  • Anti-corruption http://www.transparency.org/
  • ... open-data repositories mentioned above

• Register your projects to http://socialtech.org.uk/

• Register "where is this vessel" on the "related projects" of OpenSeaMap http://www.openseamap.org/index.php?id=partner&L=1 & http://www.globalfishingwatch.org

Crazy Ideas

• "improve" the photo gallery: http://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/uploadphoto/235010670
• invite friends to post on the social media pages of these companies
• ddos the harbor website as a "digital sit-in"
• invite activists to sign the petition to MSC - to request revocation of MSC certificate
• become a shareholder in one of those companies (if possible) and request financial reports
• explore the use of "pingers"

What can I do

• Show the Zembla documentary at the movie evenings (Citizen Kino, hackerspace...)

• Give a presentation at 31c3, and ask German hackers to help out with BLE!

• SUBMIT MORE INFORMATION!!! http://blacklist.greenpeace.org/1/vessel/show/229-jan-maria

Ask Investigative Journalists

...ask other investigative journalists to take an interest in tis story!

• Nafeez Ahmed (UK) http://nafeezahmed.com/

• Karin Spaink (NL) http://www.spaink.net/

• Brenno De Winter (NL) http://www.bigwobber.nl/

• Sisi Wei, ProPublica (USA) http://www.propublica.org/site/author/sisi_wei

Facts Found

FACTS FOUND: This is What I Found in these 2 days...

Electronic-logbook

DE http://www.ble.de/EN/02_Control/02_Fisheries/ElectronicLogbook.html?nn=2307640

Electronic logbooks news: http://www.ble.de/EN/02_Control/02_Fisheries/ElectronicLogbook.html?nn=2307640

UK http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/Regulation/ERS/Elogbook/faq

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Sea-Fisheries/Regulation/ERS/Elogbook

NL http://nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/meest-bezocht-a-z/dossier/e-logboek-visvaartuigen-ers

http://nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/meest-bezocht-a-z/dossier/e-logboek-visvaartuigen-ers/elektronische-berichten-specifiek-voor-de-pelagische-visserij

file missing: http://nvwa.nl/txmpub/files/?p_file_id=2001250

SW approved for logbooks in UK: E-Catch (Netherlands), Catchlog, Chartworx, OLRAC and Seatronics 3.1

http://www.e-catch.nl/light/

Files

File:law-about-ERS-CELEX-32009R1224-NL-TXT.pdf

File:FischartenUmrechnungsfaktoren.xls

File:data-structure-ERS-Toelichting_berichtenstructuur e-logboek.pdf

File:Nieuwsbrief_nVWA.pdf

Questions

1. Is there a legal obligation to make the data from electronic-logbooks available?

To whom —

a) To the general public (open governance data)

b) or to the journalists under Freedom of Information Act;

c) or under the cord order, in the investigation?

By-catch

No throwing fish back overboard - to be implemented 2015-2019

http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/visserij/documenten-en-publicaties/publicaties/2014/11/26/vragen-en-antwoorden-aanlandplicht-basisset.html

http://www.wageningenur.nl/nl/Expertises-Dienstverlening/Onderzoeksinstituten/imares/show/Discards-Bijvangst.htm

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140513/ncomms4893/full/ncomms4893.html

Dutch law about bijvangst: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/NL/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013R1380&from=EN

File:vragen-en-antwoorden-aanlandplicht-basisset-november-2014.pdf

http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/3985/The_EU_fish_discard_ban:_Where_92s_the_catch_.html

Cascading ecological effects of eliminating fishery discards http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140513/ncomms4893/full/ncomms4893.html

.. and then there is workshop: "Workshop on Methods for Estimating Discard Survival" http://www.ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WKMEDS.aspx

Overfishing

http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/visserij/documenten-en-publicaties/regelingen/2014/11/26/overzicht-visserijpartnerschapovereenkomsten.html & File:overzicht-visserijpartnerschapovereenkomsten.pdf

http://nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/bedrijven-en-instellingen/branche/vissector/illegale-visserij-iuu

Other news about fisheries from Dutch Government http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/visserij/documenten-en-publicaties

File:Oceana_StolenSeafood.pdf

OECD info about Fisheries http://www.oecd.org/tad/fisheries/

http://oceana.org

2016 / 03 / 10: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/ocean-ecologists-and-google-protect-ocean-biodiversity-global-fishing-watch (AIS)

Specific case - Jan Maria

http://blacklist.greenpeace.org/1/vessel/show/229-jan-maria -> SUBMIT MORE INFORMATION!!!

http://www.ble.de/DE/02_Kontrolle/02_Fischerei/131106_Jan_Maria.html

http://www.msc.org/nieuws/nieuws/msc-reactie-op-beschuldigingen-tegen-rederij-Parlevliet-en-van-der-plas-in-zembla

File:Surveillance Report Pelagic Freezer Trawler Association Atlanto-Scandian Herring Trawl Fishery.pdf

http://www.vesselfinder.com/vessels/JAN-MARIA-IMO-8707446-MMSI-218325000

http://www.greenpeace.org/austria/de/News/blog-at/deutsches-skandal-schiff-jan-maria-fischfang-/blog/45268/

Parlevliet en Van der Plas

http://blacklist.greenpeace.org/1/company/show/133-parlevliet-en-van-der-plas-bv -> SUBMIT MORE INFORMATION!

https://server.db.kvk.nl/TST-BIN/FU/TSWS001@?BUTT=28060712

https://openkvk.nl/zoeken/Parlevliet%20en%20Van%20der%20Plas

https://opencorporates.com/companies/?company_type=Besloten+Vennootschap&q=parlevliet+en+van+der+plas

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=22933153

Acquired one more company: Heiploeg International: http://www.pp-group.nl/news/tabid/288/ID/4/Parlevliet-Van-der-Plas-new-owners-of-Heiploeg.aspx

http://www.greenpeace.de/fileadmin/gpd/user_upload/themen/meere/Factsheet_Skandalfirma_Parlevliet_maerz13.pdf

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Investigations

• NVWA
  • Role of NVWA http://nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/levensmiddelen/dossier/vis-en-visproducten/rol-nvwa
  • News http://nvwa.nl/onderwerpen/dieren1/dossier/vis-en-visproducten/nieuwsoverzicht?pagina=2
  • Improving NVWA File:bijlage-plan-van-aanpak-nvwa.pdf

• FOIA requests
  • German Environmental Law http://www.legislationline.org/documents/action/popup/id/6753
  • FOIA Hamburg http://www.right2info.org/resources/publications/laws-1/laws_hamburg_eng
  • Other laws: http://www.right2info.org/laws/
  • Other organizations: http://www.right2info.org/resources/ngos-information-commission-ers-and-other
  • Laws per country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_laws_by_country
  • Legal Leaks toolkit: http://www.legalleaks.info/toolkit/what-is-the-toolkit.html
  • FOIA requests generator for UK: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/

Open Data

About Maritime Biology, Fisheries

• i-Marine: http://www.i-marine.eu/Pages/Home.aspx
  • Data Sources http://www.i-marine.eu/Content/OurServices.aspx?id=599ee2b9-de2e-4ab2-80ee-808a9a973b13&li=0
  • Gateway: gCube Virtual Environment (blah blah) https://i-marine.d4science.org/web/guest%3bjsessionid=0B79FC466B725BB7467B40A7A4A586D5

• (maybe not really open...)
  • Maritime & Seabed Maps & Charts & Satellite images of Earth https://www.iscpc.org/information/marine-resources/maps-and-charts/

About ships & sailing

• http://www.openseamap.org/

• http://shippr.org

Economic

• European Universities Institute http://www.eui.eu/Projects/EUIdatarepository/Home.aspx
  • Micro Socioeconomic Data http://www.eui.eu/Research/Library/ResearchGuides/Economics/Statistics/MicroDataSet.aspx

Companies / corporate information

Payed-for: Amadeus http://www.bvdinfo.com/nl-nl/our-products/company-information/international/amadeus && http://mintbusinessinfo.com

https://opencorporates.com/

https://openoil.net

European database containing aggregate information on non-financial companies https://www.bach.banque-france.fr/?lang=en

LittleSis: a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government https://exposingtheinvisible.org/resources/obtaining-evidence/littlesis/

General

• https://open-data.europa.eu/en/data

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data#Major_sources_of_open_data

• European (EU) statistics portal http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/eurostat/home/

• Poplus: a global federation for civic tech -- Sharing technology to help civic and democratic projects… everywhere
  • http://poplus.org // OWL -- populous https://code.google.com/p/owlpopulous/ // http://e-lico.eu/populous.html // http://poplus.org/popluscon/ // https://www.mysociety.org/projects/components/

• e-LICO: An e-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Research in Data Mining and Data-Intensive Science http://www.e-lico.eu/

• the Registry of Research Data Repositories http://www.re3data.org/

• http://publicdata.eu/dataset?groups=agriculture&page=2

• CKAN http://ckan.org/faq/#unique

• https://openspending.org/

• http://schoolofdata.org/category/howto/ // http://webscraper.io/tutorials

to look into it further

(opendatacon.org).

http://www.opengovpartnership.org/blog/jose-alonso/2014/11/26/ogp-open-data-working-group-announces-first-round-recipients-open-data

https://github.com/greenpeace/oceansofdata/wiki/Datasets

http://florafaunahack.tumblr.com

https://geekli.st/hackathon/hack4good-06/amsterdam?tab=instructions

http://www.liander.nl/liander/campagne/appsforenergy/index.htm

http://www.appsforamsterdam.nl/?cat=3

http://www.meetup.com/Appsterdam/events/181443542/

http://www.appsforeurope.eu/file/135

http://socialtech.org.uk/projects/mysociety/

Other Interesting Links

• Graph of Shell subsidiaries & Nigeria connections: https://data.openoil.net/#nigeria_production

• Ocean acidification http://www.google.com/earth/explore/showcase/ocean.html#tab=ocean-acidification http://www.ocean-acidification.net/

Activism

• Wild Leaks https://wildleaks.org/data-management-and-editorial-policies/

• PubLeaks -- leaking to Dutch Media -- https://www.publeaks.nl/index.html

• Legal Leaks Toolkit File:legal leaks nov 2011_impresion.pdf

• Empowering citizens (crowdsourcing) http://mysociety.org/

• Tactical Tech: https://tacticaltech.org/
  • https://exposingtheinvisible.org/
  • http://visualisingadvocacy.org
  • http://informationactivism.org
  • http://howto.informationactivism.org

Pingers!

European Commission regulation: Compulsory acoustic devices or 'pingers' required on fishing vessels over 12 metres using fixed gear in the North Sea, Channel and Celtic Sea

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/marine-environment/species/19887/20814/20835

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Compliance/Pingers

File:catch of dolphins - doc.pdf

In the Media

• Cornelis Vrolijk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2854348/One-Dutch-trawler-gets-quarter-England-s-entire-fish-quota-English-fishermen-allowed-two-crates-worth-50.html

• Already covered by Dutch Media & GreenPeace:
  • http://zembla.vara.nl/seizoenen/2013/afleveringen/16-05-2013

• 2024: Russian oil tankers , forbidden by sanctions, bunkering in Dutch seas https://archive.is/7dlMn