This November, fishsubsidy.org launched an interactive map that allows users to track €3.4 billion (US$ 4.7 billion) in EU fisheries subsidies: 39,174 payments to vessels from 1994 to 2006 under the Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG).
 
Setting a new standard in making information easy to access and understand, the map allows users to search by categories of payment (vessel construction, modernisation, scrapping, etc.) and see clearly the geographical distribution of funds, both across the continent and in member states, including the outermost regions. It also provides summaries of all payments to individual ports with links to the vessel pages at fishsubsidy.org.

Jack Thurston of EU Transparency explained that it only covers payments until 2006 because, “the new system of transparency that applies to the European Fisheries Fund (EFF) is deficient in a number of respects, the most important of which being that data disclosed no longer identifies the vessels for which subsidies were paid.”
 
The map is available on the fishsubsidy.org website: www.fishsubsidy.org/map