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Environmental Monitoring and Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management
It is expected that the e-Infrastructure will provide much needed synergies across currently fragmented scientific communities. The project’s target communities will benefit greatly from access to shared data streams.
Socio-ecosystem modelling requires numerous data sources such as satellite (ocean colour and reef maps), climate, hydrographic and trade data. The cooperation between FAO, WorldFish Center and ESA will provide a basis for enhanced modelling approaches. The cooperation between Fisheries and Aquaculture Resources Management and Environmental Monitoring should act as a catalyst leading to further enlargement of the community base by other groups such as oceanographers and economists.
More generally, the cooperation among these partners will provide a springboard for the use of data streams from diverse scientific communities to perform socio-ecosystem modelling. The work that the two communities wish to do can be applied to the whole domain of biodiversity management (natural resources management), both biodiversity conservation and biodiversity exploitation as catch (mainly fisheries) and farming (both land and aquatic, i.e. aquaculture). Therefore, the project will not only bring together the typically separated communities of fisheries/aquaculture and environmental monitoring, but will also create a framework and a process for further cooperation of this type across other related communities.
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