Vessel Lookup

ALL KEY VESSEL IDENTIFIERS

Check for fraud, typos and fill in the blanks in vessel data with access Goldfish's harmonized database of over 350,000 fishing and transshipment vessels. Data is sourced and maintained from dozens of official public registries including Regional Fisheries Management Organization vessel lists and the following national vessel registries:

Costa Rica
European Union
- Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden
Faroe Islands
Norway
Panama
Taiwan
United Kingdom
United States

More vessel lists are being added all the time, so check back again soon!

IUU CHECK

Ensure vessels associated with your company aren't publicly listed on one of the 10+ registries of fishing vessels known to engage in illegal fishing.

OUTLAW OCEAN CHECK

We'll let you know if a vessel has been called out by the Outlaw Ocean Project for potential labor abuse as this can be a public perception or brand risk.

WITHHOLD RELEASE ORDERS CHECK

Make sure products headed to the United States have no association with vessels under a Withhold Release Order for labor violations.

Blackists are public listings of vessels known to be engaged in Illegal, Unreported or Unregulated fishing. Blacklists are usually published by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations or individual countries. Sourcing from these vessels may result in increased scrutiny by law enforcement or present avoidable reputation/brand risks.

Withhold Release Orders and Findings are issued by the United States government for vessels where there are ongoing concerns of forced labor onboard. If discovered, US imports of seafood harvested using these vessels will be blocked, resulting in supply chain disruption and additional costs.

The Outlaw Ocean Project is an investigative reporting NGO that publishes details of vessels the organization has identified as having a risk of illegal fishing or forced labor. These vessels are not illegally operating unless they are sanctioned or blacklisted, but sourcing from them may present reputation/brand risks.

Vessel Lookup leverages a large number of authoritative registries. It includes but is not limited to blacklists published by the following Regional Fisheries Management Organizations:

Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR),
Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT),
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM),
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC),
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT),
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC),
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO),
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC),
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC),
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO),
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA),
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO),
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)

Yes! This tool leverages our API which is updated frequently, though you are always welcome to search the relevant vessel registry on your own: in our internal testing DIY searches without Goldfish take 20-30 minutes per vessel.

Yes—Lookups are 100% confidential and anonymous; data is not stored or associated with any user.

Yes, you are limited to 5 queries per 10-minute interval to avoid abuse of this free tool.

For unrestricted access contact sales.

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