FISHGLOB (Fish biodiversity facing global change), co-directed by Aurore MAUREAUD, Bastien MÉRIGOT, and Deng PALOMARES, has been a project of the United Nations Decade of the Ocean since June 2023, until 31/03/2028.
It is linked to the UN OD SUPREME programme "SUstainability, Predictability and REsilience of Marine Ecosystems" led by NOAA (USA), which aims to establish a global infrastructure for reliable forecasts, predictions and projections of climate and oceans.
FISHGLOB is an international consortium of scientists who collect, preserve, share and use data from scientific studies of bottom trawls. These surveys are one of the most widespread and longest-established forms of ocean ecosystem monitoring, providing invaluable time series on marine fish biodiversity over decades of global change. The consortium has three objectives: to provide standardised metadata, to harmonise disparate bottom trawl surveys and to create an international community of practice.
From 2020 to 2023, the FISHGLOB project, led by Bastien Mérigot and Deng Palomares, has been funded by the French Foundation for Biodiversity (FRB-CESAB), the Canadian Institute of Ecology and Evolution (CIEE) and the French Embassy in Canada.
To know more
https://oceandecade.org/actions/fish-biodiversity-facing-global-change-fishglob/
https://fishglob.sites.ucsc.edu/
