Vessel systems and methods relating thereto

A method of tracking vessel activity, said method comprising:

• receiving data, using one or more devices, including vessel positioning data and/or time associated with one or more vessels traversing one or more paths on a body of water;
• identifying, using said processor, one or more types of vessel activities of one or more of said vessels at said certain positions and/or time along one or more of said paths;
• assigning, using said processor, an activity weight value to each type of said vessel activities;
• parsing, using said processor, an electronic map of said body of water and land surrounding said body of water into discrete geographic zones, each of which defines a boundary around a water region and/or a land region that is located within said electronic map and some of which include at least a portion of one or more of said paths of one or more of said vessels;
• grouping, using said processor, one or more types of vessel activities being carried out in each of said discrete geographic zones to arrive at one or more types of grouped vessel activities within said discrete geographic zones;
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• using said activity weight value for each type of said vessel activities, calculating, using said processor, a vessel activity score for each type of said grouped vessel activities within said discrete geographic zones or calculating a geographic zone score for each of said discrete geographic zones.