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OPEN ARTFISH and the FAO ODK mobile phone application: a toolkit for small-scale fisheries routine data collection

Year of publication 2017

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 120 p.

Author Gertjan de Graaf, Constantine Stamatopoulos, Tony Jarrett

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109883-7

Series title FAO Computerized Information Series. Fisheries

Series number Toolkit OPEN ARTFISH No.13

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Knowledge of the status and trends of capture fisheries, including socio-economic aspects, is a key factor for sound policy development, better decision-making and responsible fisheries management. Capacity building in data collection and fisheries statistics has always been a high priority for FAO, regional fisheries bodies and national fisheries authorities. The most recent effort by FAO was the development of this toolkit for routine small scale fisheries data collection. The toolkit comprise s a generic database (OPEN ARTFISH) and a mobile phone application for routine small scale fisheries data collection. The primary objective of the toolkit is to facilitate the implementation of cost effective and sustainable routine data collection, storage and analyses of data, using appropriate statistical procedures.

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