ECDIS overwhelmed by too many AIS targets

[bcn]

A funny (?) article about the (mis)use of AIS:

https://gcaptain.com/ais-problems-re...ast-china-sea/

[Jim Cate]

Funny? Sounds serious if you navigate in those areas. And if not dealt with, will only get worse.

Jim

[Paul L]

Seems like a pretty simple solution, assign a floating fishing or survey gear AIS type. From the article

The IMO has acknowledged the use of radar enhanced Aids to Navigation by assigning symbols to these Aids (IMO Annex MSC.1/Circ.1473). To date, there is no symbol assigned to commercially or privately launched or anchored buoys or equipment. There is a growing need for oversight for the utilization of AIS on floating gear.

[RaymondR]

There was a thread on here a while back which discussed this issue and a number of the posts suggested the solutions now being proposed in the article.