1. 1 The Integrated fisheries Capture Information System (ICIS) Marc Taconet marc.taconet@fao.org EGEE Istambul - 25 th September 2008 Scientific Data Infrastructure Ecosystem

2. 2  The “Fishery” community ICIS – a response to institutional needs GRID technologies: opportunities and challenges Outline of presentation

3. 3 National and Inter-Governmental Organizations dedicated to:  sustainable exploitation of fishery resources  conservation of habitats and ecosystems The “ Fishery ” community Who are we?

4. 4 Implementation of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (EAF) The World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, 2002, encourages nations to apply the ecosystem approach by 2010... Fisheries User Community 10 January 2008, Sophia Antipolis (France) The “ Fishery ” community What are our objectives? "An ecosystem approach to fisheries strives to balance diverse societal objectives, by taking into account the knowledge and uncertainties about biotic, abiotic and human components of ecosystems and their interactions and applying an integrated approach to fisheries within ecologically meaningful boundaries."

5. 5 Implementation of the EAF: Components of knowledge Production systems / Fleets Resources of commercial interest Broader ecosystem Physical environment Broader ecosystem FAO WFC RFBs CoML / OBIS IOC IUCN Fisheries biodiversity Environment The “Fishery” community needs and institutional set-up

6. 6 Distributed roles : by geographical scale:  Global level  Regional level  National level by themes  Biodiversity – environment  Fisheries by mission:  Policy – management – development  Research  Control and enforcement Fisheries User Community 10 January 2008, Sophia Antipolis (France) FAOWFCRFBs National research center National administ ration x x x x x x x x xx x x x x x x x x x x The “Fishery” community needs and institutional set-up

7. 7 Information networks: FAO’s coordinating role Fisheries User Community 10 January 2008, Sophia Antipolis (France) non-tuna RFB agencies Tuna RFB agencies The “ Fishery ” community Focus on Fisheries agencies

8. 8 Information networks: FAO’s coordinating role  Coordinating Party on Fishery Statistics ( since 1960) coordinate fishery statistical programmes standards setting body  Fisheries Global Information System ( since 1999) Distributed e-Infrastructure to promote data integration, streamlined workflow, information standards  Fishery Resources Monitoring System (since 2004) Monitoring state of world fishery resources mechanisms for data sharing The “ Fishery ” community Focus on Fisheries agencies CWP

9. 9 The “Fishery” community  ICIS – a response to institutional needs GRID technologies: opportunities and challenges Outline of presentation

10. 10 UN recommendations:  FAO should provide indicators for assessment of High Seas stocks “distinguish catch in the High Seas from catch within EEZs”  current status: reporting by statistical areas ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Context

11. 11 CWP recommendations:  enhance quality of global catch statistics “stronger integration of existing catch Databases  current status: shared standards non-integrated databases ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Context

12. 12 REGIONAL LEVEL FAO RFBs Catch stats GLOBAL LEVEL Catch stats Reference system Reference system GIS areas - sp Mapping rules harmonisation of hererogeneous sources standard reporting format ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision Fishery Fishery agencies Biodiversity Data standardisation: harmonisation of heterogeneous sourcesData queriesData import end user query tools

13. 13 Fisheries User Community 10 January 2008, Sophia Antipolis (France) ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision Data processing: reallocation rules

14. 14 REGIONAL LEVEL FAO RFBs Catch stats GLOBAL LEVEL Catch stats end user Reference system Reference system GIS areas - sp Mapping rules harmonisation of hererogeneous sources reallocation rules ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision Fishery Biodiversity Products dissemination: maps - tables

15. 15 REGIONAL LEVEL FAO RFBs Catch stats GLOBAL LEVEL Catch stats end user Reference system Reference system GIS areas - sp Mapping rules harmonisation of hererogeneous sources reallocation rules ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision Fishery Biodiversity

16. 16 Data processing: Predicting species distribution  Environmental envelope type modeling approach Predictor Species-specific environmental envelope P Max Relative probability of occurrence Preferred min Preferred max MinMax Physical bathymetry sea temperature salinity land distance ice concentration Biological primary production ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision

17. 17 WFC REGIONAL LEVEL FAO RFBs Catch stats GLOBAL LEVEL Catch stats Reference system Reference system fishbase DB NOAA OBIS Satellite oceanographic Species occurrence Aquamap GIS areas - sp peer review editing Expert Mapping rules end user ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision Fisheries Biodiversity reallocation rules

18. 18 Summary of needs  Create an information system which will facilitate...  the dissemination through tables or maps of credible estimates of catch data, according to users’ choice of spatial resolution, based on best available statistic sources and with transparent algorythms.  the comparison of catch statistics among various sources.  through mechanisms allowing...  semi-automated import of distributed data sources  harmonization of heterogeneous sources  implementation of re-allocation rules  intensive data processing  support for query, output and annotation.  easy updating and feedback processes ICIS – a response to institutional needs the Vision

19. 19 The “Fishery” community ICIS – a response to institutional needs  GRID technologies: opportunities and challenges Outline of presentation

20. 20 Current status:  communities of practices (CoP):  with e-infrastructures  using structured data  research needs in Marine sciences  enable data sharing beyond established CoP  enable collaborative approaches  generalizing solutions to interoperability is desirable Opportunity  D4Science offers an approach Grid technology: opportunities and challenges

21. 21 Many outstanding questions  of Technical nature  is toolkit in line with our IS-IT strategy/needs?  logical extension of our current infrastructure, which breaks the current limits  respecting highly structured info sources based on semantic meaning  are technical goals realistic?  duplicating existing tools, or building on existing services?  ability to build over other interoperability solutions: Networked ontologies Grid technology: opportunities and challenges

22. 22 Broader strategic issues  how to maintain momentum / commitment from communities  imperious need to reconciliate diverging logics  informatic sciences: fast, demo of potential, swap to next challenge  user communities: inertia, “data” investments, gap between sponsors and final users vested with knowledge generation  solutions?  strong buy-in supported by institutional needs  software co-ownership  stepwise approach to delivery  modular design – benefits from each module  long term commitment from sponsors Grid technology: opportunities and challenges

23. 23 THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION LOOKING TOWARDS A FRUITFUL DISCUSSION Grid technology: opportunities and challenges