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9 May 2018 - Traceability aspects and GRSF pilot release.

Meeting Notes
Topics: 1) Unassessed resources and traceability 2) Update GRSF records in the GRSF Knowledge Base and in the Catalogue towards the GRSF pilot release.

Participants:
FishSource (Susana Segurado, Braddock Spear)
RAM (Michael Melnychuk)
FAO (Giulia Gorelli, Aureliano Gentile)
FORTH (Nikos Minadakis)

Notes

Unassessed resources and traceability

The following best practices were drafted.

  • In case of a marine resource without assessment, the area of marine resource should be the species distribution area (the best case). If any assessment unit is available for that species, then the marine resource area should be compiled by subtracting the area of the assessment unit(s) (a feature not available today in GRSF).

  • Under this definition, there should be no more than one marine resource per species or taxon.

  • One or more GRSF record with type Fishing Unit can be CONNECTED to a Marine Resource when no matching assessment units are available. As this is the best information available on that resource at the moment.

  • The Fishing Unit connected with a Marine Resource can be also FLAGGED for traceability, but with the caveat that no overlaps (even if partial) should be in place with other relevant assessment units.

    Type of stock-to-fishery connections
    1-to-1 : 1 assessment unit -to- 1 fishing unit, simplest case for traceability and scoring purposes
    1-to-n : 1 assessment unit-to-multiple fishing units, in case the assessment unit is a multispecies assessment or for overlapping (partial) distinct fishing units (e.g. multiple countries using potentially multiple gears fishing the same resource)
    1-to-n : 1 marine resource-to-multiple fishing units, in case of unassessed resource
    n-to-1 : multiple assessment units (or resources) to one fishing unit, DEPRECATED, this type of connection is not helpful for traceability purposes

  • An Alert should be made when a new assessment unit is added in the GRSF since it may alter the unassessed marine resources structure, and may justify changing the associations for certain current fishing units.

Additional notes

  • The "Unascertained" FishSource records fall under the GRSF type "Marine Resource", but are currently not structured under the proposed definition.

  • A decision is need on how to identify a marine resource in the semantic identifier, whether using areas or using an alternative identifier like "unassessed".

  • The type “Other fishery” is so far not considered for connections.

GRSF Pilot release

  • GRSF pilot release: how to distribute the effort and what can be done in an automated way. The group was informed that following the completion of the GRSF development, possibly by the 21 of May, FAO should start validating records. A first round with an initial assessment with selected manual approvals for unique records: i) with no similar records, and ii) with similar records. Manual approval is also foreseen for the merged records. Once the above checks and validations have been run successfully (with some lessons learned), then we can implement some automated rules. See details in the GRSF validation plan page. FishSource and RAM offered their support in the validation process indicating that some resources can be tasked in the next months to access the GRSF Admin and approve/merge/reject records.

Follow-up actions

  • FAO to inform about the validation process and to organize the effort among RAM/FishSource/FIRMS colleagues.
  • FORTH to confirm that marine resources and fishing units can be connected and flagged as per above best practices
  • FORTH/CNR to implement notifications for new records added in the GRSF Admin

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