M. Taconet, A. Gentile, A. Ellenbroek FAO Blue Assessment Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries – an overview and progress made M. Taconet, A. Gentile, A. Ellenbroek FAO Marc.Taconet@FAO.org Aureliano.Gentile@FAO.org Anton.Ellenbroek@FAO.org BlueBRIDGE 1st TCom 25-28 January 2016 Rome, Italy

Outline What is the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries Sources of Information Data sharing policies Minimum data requirements What’s in progress

What is the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries Overall objective: Provide scientists with an innovative environment supporting the production of a comprehensive and shared global reference set of stocks and fisheries records that will boost regional and global environmental status monitoring as well as responsible consumer practices. Strategic Objectives improve the production of global/regional summary indicators on the status of fishery resources; facilitate traceability and certification of fishery products; will rely on global unique identifiers (UIDs) which will be essential to mainstream the production of regional or global indicators of stock status need to be launched with a critical mass of records assembled from distinct global databases constitute an invite for national research institutes and market actors to contribute their knowledge and join the global reporting community huge incentive to the fisheries sector to inform society of the provenance of aquatic products in the market chain

What is the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries Stock: A group of individuals in a species occupying a well defined spatial range independent of other stocks of the same species. Stock: A group of individuals in a species occupying a well defined spatial range independent of other stocks of the same species. It can be affected by random dispersal movements and directed migrations due to seasonal or reproductive activity. Fishery: A Fishery is an activity leading to the harvesting of fish, within the boundaries of a defined area. The fishery concept fundamentally gathers indication of human fishing activity, including from economic, management, biological/ environmental and technological viewpoints.

What is the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries Fishery: A Fishery is an activity leading to the harvesting of fish, within the boundaries of a defined area. The fishery concept fundamentally gathers indication of human fishing activity, including from economic, management, biological/ environmental and technological viewpoints Stock: A group of individuals in a species occupying a well defined spatial range independent of other stocks of the same species. It can be affected by random dispersal movements and directed migrations due to seasonal or reproductive activity. Fishery: A Fishery is an activity leading to the harvesting of fish, within the boundaries of a defined area. The fishery concept fundamentally gathers indication of human fishing activity, including from economic, management, biological/ environmental and technological viewpoints.

Sources of Information Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS) RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database FishSource FishBase Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries

Sources of Information Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS) 14 intergovernmental organizations / 17 RFBs published inventory of 1082 stocks and 322 fisheries. Status reports exist for about 600 stocks and 200 fisheries

Sources of Information RAM Legacy Database database for stock assessment results for commercially harvested fish stocks from 21 national and international management agencies 331 stocks, including nine of the world’s ten largest fisheries provides data (e.g. catch time series) and assessment results for data-rich stocks that are assessed regularly Map showing the amount of the total catch in a country or ocean covered in the RAM legacy data base. The size of the circle is proportional to the total catch from the country, the green area represents how much of the catch is from stocks in the RAM Legacy database. RAM Legacy Database database for stock assessment results for commercially harvested fish stocks from 21 national and international management agencies 331 stocks, including nine of the world’s ten largest fisheries provides data (e.g. catch time series) and assessment results (including biomass, recruits and fishing mortality time series, life history information as well as biological reference points) for data-rich stocks that are assessed regularly

Sources of Information FishSource (from SFP) contains some 600 stocks, and about 1200 fisheries collaborations between FishSource and FishBase, SeaLifeBase, and the RAM II Legacy Stock Recruitment Database develop approaches towards indicators of management performance FishSource.com – Our industry-facing site, specific to SFP. Our vision for FishSource remains the same: to provide major seafood buyers with up-to-date, impartial, actionable information on the status of fisheries and improvements needed to become sustainable. By assembling the essential data and making it freely available, FishSource lowers the key barrier to entry for companies to engage in sustainable sourcing. Companies thus save time and resources by accessing FishSource for sustainability information and fisheries status.

Supporting applications Other Sources Chimaera (Portal to South West Indian Ocean Fisheries data) Fisheries Linked Open Data (FLOD) iMarine Top Level Ontology (TLO) Warehouse Geospatial data (EEZ, FAO major fishing areas, etc.) iMarine species data from providers (FAO-ASFIS, GBIF, ITIS, OBIS, WoRMS,etc.) Supporting applications GRADE (FLOD maintenance) COTRIX (Code lists management) COMET (mapping services) iMarine data mining and annotations capacities

Supporting data sharing policies The iMarine Data Access and Sharing Policies support the data sharing among contributors Business Metadata accompany the in-and-out flow of data to acknowledge and to preserve provenance and to provide instructions for derivative works Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries Business Metadata Data

Minimum data requirements From the heterogeneity of data collected in the FIRMS/RAM/FishSource… databases, which information will be extracted to populate the core repository? Which rules for inclusion? … Example for Stock Species name Area reference MSY, SSB, F Reporting Year Source of Information Link to fisheries Example for Fishery Area reference Target/Associated/Bycatch species Flag state Management Body/Authority(ies) Reporting Year Source of Information

Comparison of FishSource and FIRMS databases Although the architecture of the databases is different, both use Excel templates for updating, and collect similar raw data. However, they differ in the target audience and objectives, thus providing different post-processing routines and outputs. While FishSource, applies algorithms for generating quantitative stock sustainability scores, FIRMS is more focus in providing qualitative data for dissemination to a wide range of public, allowing for more flexibility (free text fields) in both, inputs and outputs. According to the objectives, to the minimum data requirements and underlying priorities, it is needed to: identify and standardize common fields (i.e. using same units), ensure that definitions agree (i.e. for biological reference points and fishing terms) and develop unique identifiers for standard concepts (i.e. fishery research institutions, stock ID, marine resource assessment methods, etc.); identify concepts and related Code Lists required for the core repository. And their harmonization/mapping in case code lists of similar concept exist in the two databases (e.g. list of species, list of geographical areas).

Comparison of FishSource and FIRMS databases FISHSOURCE TEMPLATE (compatible with RAM Database) FIRMS TEMPLATE

Comparison of FishSource and FIRMS databases

What’s in progress In RED what is relevant to developers Objectives See the GRSF Wiki pages at https://support.d4science.org/projects/bluebridge/wiki/GRSF Preliminary meetings were held to investigate the three data sources: 1 Dec 2015 - FishSource 23 Nov 2015 - RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Data Base 23 Oct 2015 - FIRMS Competency questions have been drafted by FORTH and FIRMS Secretariat FORTH built an ontology with such sources and competency questions A shared session (Tue, 1 March 2016) between FIRMS TWG team and the BB TWG team will discuss about the implementation of the GRSF, in particular: Objectives Global aggregator (enabler) for the comprehensive inventory of existing stock and fishery records Comprehensive State of stocks Comprehensive Status and trends of fisheries (with focus on fishery management performance indicators) Summaries on status and trends Dissemination of comprehensive knowledge base on stocks and fisheries status and trends Implementation Minimum data requirements (core GRSF repository structure) Definition of unique records From unique reports, through unique reporting unit, their life-cycle, to records families (i.e. clusters of records by facts of partial overlapping of descriptors) Assignment of “proxy/relational properties” Adoption of Unique Identifiers Data management workflow Harvesting tool Master Data Management tool Identifying information objects (stocks, fisheries, and status reports) Registering Reference data Managing mapping among information objects Content Management System Publishing workflow management, including validation of Unique Identifier Data curation in respect of the minimum data requirements Editing the relational properties Data mining and indexing of source documents Rules for indexing - Ontology validation - Roles of data sources holders In RED what is relevant to developers

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