1. Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRFS)
Aureliano Gentile FAO of the UN
Supporting Blue Growth with innovative applications based on EU e-infrastructures
14-15 February 2018, Brussels

2. Outline What is the GRSF? Achievements of the GRSF development Uptake
Outcome
Exploitation plan
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3. Boost stocks and fisheries status and trend monitoring
What is the GRSF?
The GRSF is an inventory of global stocks and fisheries records across multiple data providers
The GRSF aims at providing an innovative environment supporting the collaborative production and maintenance of a comprehensive and transparent inventory of stocks and fisheries records that will boost regional and global stocks and fisheries status and trend monitoring as well as responsible consumer practices.
Boost stocks and fisheries status and trend monitoring
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4. Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries
What is the GRSF?
Data providers and part of the GRSF development
Fisheries and Resource Monitoring System (FIRMS) (partnership of international organizations, regional fishery bodies)
the RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database (Univ. of Washington)
FishSource (program of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership) 
Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS)
RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database
FishSource
Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries
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5. What is the GRSF? The GRSF user interface & Competency Queries
Collated data from either national or regional sources
Information stored according to data standards and protocols; to allow comparability between records
Assignment of Unique Identifiers for single stock and fishery standard identifications
Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS)
RAM Legacy Stock Assessment Database
The GRSF user interface & Competency Queries
Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRSF)
FishSource
The GRSF Knowledge Base
The Database Sources
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6. What is the GRSF?
Assignment of Unique Identifiers for standardized identifications of stocks and fisheries
Universally Unique Identifier - to respond to whatever global IT standard
Example
Semantic Identifier – product labelling, records identification & validation, etc.
Standard coding system for:
- Stocks <Species> + <Assessment Area(s)>
- Fisheries <Species> + <Fishing Area(s)> + <Management Entity(ies)> +Jurisdiction area(s)> + <Geartype> + <Flag State> Example of semantic identifier, and of its full label
asfis:COD + fao:21.3.M + grsf-org:INT:NAFO + rfb_comp:NAFO + isscfg:OTB + iso3:LTU Gadus morhua - Atlantic, Northwest/21.3.M - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) - NAFO area of competence - Bottom otter trawls - Lithuania
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7. Data coverage What is the GRSF? GRSF Stocks - 2856 Fisheries - 9564
Assessment Unit
Marine Resource
Fishery
Fishing Unit
Fishing Description
GRSF Knowledge Base
FishSource ZZZZ
RAM YYYY
FIRMS XXXX
GRSF Stocks
Assessment Units
Marine Resources - 793
Fisheries
Fishing Units
Fishing Descriptions
The quality control and information cleaning work is in progress (e.g. identifying/connecting duplicates), and about 2,000 records for unique stocks and 6,000 for fisheries are expected at the end of that process.

8. Achievements The GRSF interface
Part of iMarine Data Catalogue, open source CKAN software
2 VREs (Virtual Research Environment)
the “GRSF” VRE for the public users with approved records
the “GRSF Admin” VRE for authorized users to manage and validate the GRSF records
The GRSF Knowledge Base is built with MatWare (FORTH semantic web technology using ontologies)
The "GRSF knowledge base", is an RDF triplestore (semantic warehouse) based on well established ontologies (i.e. MarineTLO)
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9. Achievements The GRSF VRE collaborative environment
allows contributions in a data validation workflow
facilitates updates
add transparency through source and ownership metadata, proper citations and credits
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10. Uptake
FIRMS Steering Committee (June 2017, FSC10) decided to consider to take ownership of the GRSF
FIRMS, the Fisheries Resources Monitoring System is a Partnership between Regional Fisheries Bodies with the goal to “facilitate the monitoring of the status and trends of all fishery resources.”
- The BlueBRIDGE & FIRMS Technical Working Group joint meeting (Feb. 2018) made recommendations for a FIRMS ownership of the GRSF with a governance model and an integrated Knowledge base.
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11. Unique identifiers for Stocks and Fisheries
Outcome
Unique identifiers for Stocks and Fisheries
Species: Gadus morhua
Species code: COD
Fishing Area: FAO 21.3.M
Management Authority: Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
Jurisdiction: NAFO area of competence
Fishing Gear: Bottom otter trawls
Fishing Gear code: OTB
Flag State: Lithuania
Flag State Code: LTU
ID: asfis:COD + fao:21.3.M + grsf-org:INT:NAFO + rfb_comp:NAFO + isscfg:OTB + iso3:LTU
UUID: --
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Potential use of unique identifiers for product labelling
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12. Outcome
The infrastructure provides services that make the GRSF a unique system to:
Access a comprehensive global information repository on fish stocks and fisheries
Harmonize with standards and collate data from independent repositories
Generate Unique identifiers for stocks and fisheries records
Provide a web-based collaborative environment for multiple contributions in a data validation workflow
Disseminate transparent information with source and ownership metadata, proper citations and credits, and respect of ownerships
Facilitate Users to access a huge amount of quality data collected in a cost-effective way with distributed effort among authoritative sources
Contribute to international initiatives such as the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (14, 17, …), the State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA), ...
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13. Outcome Potential audiences RFBs and their member states
Seafood industry (from suppliers to retailers)
National agencies of governments dealing with stocks and fisheries reporting
Researchers and Officers working on global analyses on state of fishery resources
NGOs promoting sustainable fisheries
General public
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14. Outcome Potential benefits
A global standard for Unique Identifiers of stocks and fisheries: i) a Universally Unique Identifier, machine readable code to respond to whatever global IT standard, and ii) a Semantic Identifier, human readable code with standard codes and labels;
Support to dissemination and monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goal Indicator “Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels”;
Support to traceability needs including catch documentation schemes, ecolabelling schemes, food safety, sustainable fisheries;
Expected to boost stocks and fisheries status and trend monitoring and promises to stimulate responsible consumer practices.
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15. Outcome The GRSF community
Under the UN initiative on the Sustainable Development Goals, a FIRMS expanded partnership steering the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries will
increase the global coverage of stock status monitoring,
while providing for traceability, transparency, consistency and comparability of stocks status information, which will
aid countries to disseminate information on national monitored stocks thus promoting their efforts to render their fisheries sustainable
and deliver information services to countries, RFBs, FAO and various public and private partners/users
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16. Exploitation plan Exploitation plan
The GRSF VRE will be gradually populated with data validated by experts under specific criteria. A pilot content will be released by April 2018
Present GRSF at side event of FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI, July 2018)
Finalize the governance and sustainability model proposal for final decision by the FIRMS Steering Committee (FSC11, early 2019)
Compile requirements and implement GRSF Services for target business needs
Launch of GRSF to the public upon FSC11 clearance
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17. 謝謝 Merci Thank You Благодарю ¡Muchas Gracias!
شكرا 謝謝
Merci
Thank You
Благодарю
¡Muchas Gracias!
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