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#22 February 2021 - GRSF Webinar

Meeting Notes

Participants:

RAM (Michael Melnychuk)
FishSource (Susana Segurado, Patricia Amorim, Braddock Spear)
FAO (Marc Taconet, Bracken van Niekerk, Emmanuel Blondel, Anton Ellenbroek, Aureliano Gentile)
CNR (Pasquale Pagano)

Main topics

  • This meeting is for preparing a FAO webinar on GRSF. Typically, a FAO webinar is 45 minutes long, with max 30 minutes presentation(s).
  • There is a strong pressure to demonstrate ways in which to be innovative, especially on the IT front with new emerging technologies.
  • Following the pilot release at the FAO Fisheries Symposium, now is the time to really show the maturity of the GRSF and its capabilities.

Webinar storyboard

Opening - Introduction on the GRSF

  • Identifying our audience at the beginning of our discussion will be critical. In order to capture our audience, and ensure that they are hooked within the 5 first minutes, we will have to present and talk beyond the techy terms and try to avoid a presentation structure which matches the information system structure and life cycle closely.

  • Following the opening, evoke the problems we are trying to address.

  • Reflect strongly on what the elements of innovation are and explain how they participate to the transformation (think Blue transformation).

  • Highlight the latest developments in terms of the additional functionality and how this assists in user friendliness (APIs, search options within the map viewer etc.). This is more interesting to the non-experts being targeted in this webinar.

  • The GRSF video made in BlueCloud (in progress) could be used to launch the intro on GRSF. (Yes if the messages are well aligned - might require some tweaking in case?)

“Blue Transformation” programme which builds on three pillars: a) Sustainable intensification of aquaculture, b) transformative fisheries management and c) update and innovate value chains. The line I am taking is that blue transformation is what allows us to achieve blue recovery and restore productive ecosystems to the level they can produce efficiently and sustainably.

Let’s reflect on this message for GRSF so to make it fit well within the Blue transformation program. What makes GRSF participating to this transformative program?

  • supports transformative fisheries management, as:
  • a critical mass of stocks and fisheries status information by major global players,
  • an aggregator of relevant information to support decision making in management, thanks to a design making it a hub for connecting stocks or fisheries relevant information
  • ... which makes it world users' choice to be selected
  • achieving blue recovery and restore productive ecosystems: a key contribution to the monitoring of stock status in context of SDG14.4.1,
  • update and innovate value chains: contributes to traceability, by connecting aquatic products consumers to state of fisheries and stocks

The Stocks information domain - contribution to SDG 14.4.1

  • The need of a wider and transparent global data coverage on fish stocks - RAM experience in GRSF - Snapshot on how RAM and FIRMS are complementary or overlapping, depending on FAO areas
  • The alluded article whereas there's biased representativeness of the stocks used for the assessment (here for example we can say we have 1800 stocks (and more to come) in the DB, and look at the map for their distribution.
  • The addition of the SDG stock information domain, from countries, that will be added in the future, which will represent a wider global coverage of stocks and would include the straddling stocks as well as stocks in inland waters. Beyond the stock information provided by RFBs (limited geographically), it was suggested to show an example for a specific area and how the GRSF is contributing towards these data gaps, and show an image of a possible reporting architecture for SDGs.

The Fisheries information domain - contribution to Traceability

  • A traceability story (e.g. from SFP FishSource) and the vision of the consumer or a FishSource "client" accessing status information. Possibly presented as a short story in a 2 minute video format.
  • It was suggested that a fisher person be contacted for this sort of testimony.
  • It is important to position well the UUID in a broad traceability landscape - an access to originating Stock or Fishery status information; also Ref the SOFIA outlook section with a Matrix diagram nicely showing this

What innovation GRSF brings?

  • There is a need for standardization amongst fisheries, in terms of how data is collected and stored
  • Blockchain or other technologies can support the traceability needs? (statement by NFIAM colleagues). This innovation will ultimately change the data workflow within fisheries.
  • Highlight how the UUIDs facilitate easy data capture, especially in the instances where the fisheries and stocks are well defined.
  • The concept of DOIs were suggested as the solution to concatenate and retrieve time series information on stock status easily (as is used by ICES for their annual scientific advice and graph publications). It was suggested to use this example from ICES. We can connect this to the idea of "open data".
  • Think of the use of UUIDs in others' databases: ICES, StockSmart, IWC whales status webpages, etc. and how would this can be exploited by GRSF?
  • The GRSF could add stock status information to the FAO fisheries statistics catch DB at a larger global scale. This could assist with the management of fisheries in terms of catch limits, quotas, data capture etc.

Status of the developments and future perspectives (in the BlueCloud project or beyond)

  • Which are the next steps and how do we engage the audience? this can also be in the form of polls
  • Raise some new perspectives e.g. how this can be used for nutrition (Anton's FSN), how can other data sets be incorporated (1) (DB on natural disasters, harmful algal blooms, oceanographic/environmental data, etc.)?

(1) Based on the SPRFMO discussion on connecting some fisheries UUIDs with AIS, can we generate an image of what this could look like (Anne Elise, Aureliano, Emmanuel)

Closing remarks

  • How to engage the audience at the end for action? What do we want from them?
  • For countries and others to engage with the UUID list and ingest them within their DBs and national stock reports (SDG 14.4.1).
  • In the cases where there the UUIDs don't match countries stocks/fisheries, the gaps will be highlighted and future work can be done in these areas.
  • Highlight that it is everyone's responsibility to promote and spread the GRSF.

Select the date

Available options: 21 or 28 April

Identify presenters for the sections of the webinar

IN PROGRESS

  • Marc (opening)
  • FishSource team for the traceability part
  • Innovation/future perspectives (Anton?)
  • Closing remarks (Marc? other senior management?)
  • ...

Other considerations

  • Prepare answers for potential tricky questions (area issues, stock status, standards, results not comparable between sources and stock areas etc.)
  • FAO to develop a problem statement with the Trade and Marketing department.
  • Look at current events in the media, focus in on a place or stock that is mentioned and focus on this to make the webinar more relevant and current.
  • Engage with the audience during the webinar with a poll.
  • A live/recorded demo of the GRSF to be conducted.
  • The BLUE Cloud video currently in production could potentially feed into this webinar.

ACTIONS

  1. FAO to contact relevant Trade and Marketing department people for the problem statement
  2. FishSource to get a testimony of their client (possible video)
  3. FAO to enquire about potential dates as well as the format of the recording
  4. Presenters still need to be decided
  5. FAO to prepare a status of current activities
  6. A GoogleSlides file to be created so that all colleagues can work concurrently

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