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Add to Preferred SourcesFAO and Italy’s National Research Council (CNR) have agreed to intensify their collaboration in iMarine, a cloud-based community platform to help improve fisheries management.
The agreement assures that FAO’s extensive knowledge of fisheries and aquaculture will be further integrated in the iMarine’s portal and can be used in data research and development projects.
The cooperation in iMarine allows scientists from CNR and across the planet to promote Open Data and Open Science. This is useful when defragmenting research data and to develop reusable and cost-effective monitoring tools useful across marine and food sciences.
The new Memorandum of Understanding is a prime example of collaboration in the science-policy nexus, facilitating work on subjects ranging from databases on vulnerable marine ecosystems, global atlas initiatives for tuna and aquaculture, fish stock assessment tools and the Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries. The platform offers tools that are already used in various FAO capacity-building initiatives linked to efforts to keep fishing within biologically sustainable levels.
Árni M. Mathiesen, FAO Assistant Director-General, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, and Roberto Scopigno, Research Director at the CNR’s Institute for Computer Science and Technologies (ISTI), inked the memorandum that formalizes the collaboration for the next five years. They did so on the sidelines of the first day of the International Symposium on Fisheries Sustainability FAO is hosting this week.
Original source: FAO
Published on 18 November 2019