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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetDigital innovation supports data gathering for better fisheries management 2024
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No results found.Effective fisheries management, which is crucial for maintaining healthy fish stocks, relies on decisions about species selection, fishing locations, seasons, and catch limits. These decisions must balance social and economic benefits with the preservation of marine ecosystems. Reliable, up-to-date data is essential for making informed choices, but obstacles such as a lack of data standardization, underreporting, and data gaps often hinder this process. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has developed tools and platforms to supply the data that facilitates the effective management of fisheries. To support the standardization of data collection for bottom trawl surveys in the Mediterranean and Adriatic regions, FAO developed the AdriaMed Trawl Survey Information System (ATrIS). ATrIS is now the de facto reference data management tool for several Mediterranean countries, for example Algeria, Libya, Malta, and Tunisia as well as for Oman, showcasing its potential for supporting global fisheries management. FAO also developed Calipseo, a web-based application that integrates diverse data sources to produce fisheries statistics for policymaking and reporting. It enables real-time data collection on fishing activities, catch details, and environmental factors, facilitating evidence-based decision-making. The Fisheries Performance Assessment Toolkit (FPAT) is a tool that enables the assessment of fisheries’ sustainability via simulations of management outcomes for data-limited fisheries. -
Book (stand-alone)OPEN ARTFISH and the FAO ODK mobile phone application: a toolkit for small-scale fisheries routine data collection 2017
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No results found.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. -
Book (stand-alone)Regional review of capacity requirements for fisheries data collection and fisheries data management in Member Nations of the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea 2024
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No results found.The report provides the outcomes of series of national workshops organized by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) and the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), under the project “Capacity Building on Data Collection and Management for Member States.” Conducted between 28 April and 5 July 2021, the workshops took place in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, and Liberia, with the support of FAO’s Regional Office for Africa (RAF), national FAO country offices, and technical inputs from FAO’s Fisheries and Resources Monitoring System (FIRMS) team. The primary objective of these workshops was to strengthen and harmonize fisheries data collection and reporting systems across FCWC member states. Key outcomes included a diagnostic of current fisheries reporting practices, identification of national capacities and gaps in both industrial and small-scale fisheries data, and prioritization of actions to align national data systems with FCWC, CECAF, and FAO reporting standards to improve data collection and collaboration across the FCWC subregion.
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