Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources iMarine

[18]Acronyms

ACFA: Advisory Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture

ASCLME: Agulhas and Somali Current Large Marine Ecosystem

BCLME: Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem

CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity [3].

CCLME: Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem

CCRF: Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

CECAF: Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic, a regional fisheries body

CITES: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora http://www.cites.org/

CFP: Common Fishery Policy

COFI: FAO Committee of Fisheries

CoP: Community of Practice [15].

CRIA: Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental http://www.cria.org.br/

CWP: Coordinating Working Party on fishery statistical standards

DCI: Distributed Computing Infrastructure

DSF: FAO's Deep Sea Fisheries programme http://www.fao.org/fishery/topic/4450/en

EA: Ecosystem Approach.

EAF: Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries.

EA-CoP: Ecosystem Approach Community of Practice.

EBSA: Ecologically and Biologically Significant Area.

ECOSOPE: A knowledge base about marine ecosystems http://www.ecoscopebc.ird.fr/EcoscopeKB

EGI: European Grid Initiative http://web.eu-egi.eu/

EMODNET: European Marine Observation and Data Network http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/consultation_emodnet_en.html

FCPPS: Fishery Country Profiles Production System

FIGIS: FAO’s Fisheries Global Information System http://www.fao.org/fishery/figis/en

FIRMS: FAO’s Fishery Resources Monitoring System http://firms.fao.org/firms/en

GEF: Global Environmental Fund

GENESI-DEC: Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Earth Communities

GENESI-DR: Ground European Network for Earth Science Interoperations - Digital Repositories

GFCM: General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean, a regional fisheries body

GOBI: Global Ocean Biodiversity Initiative http://www.gobi.org/

ICIS: Integrated Capture Information System

IOTC: Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, a regional fisheries body

IRD: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, a French public research institute http://en.ird.fr/the-ird/presentation

ITQ: Individual Transferable Quota

IUCN: International Union for Conservation of Nature http://www.iucn.org

LME: Large Marine Ecosystem

MPA: Marine Protected Area

NEAFC: North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission http://www.neafc.org/

NGO: Non-governmental organisation

NSERC: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System

RAC: Regional Advisory Council

RFMO: Regional Fisheries Management Organisation

RSO: Regional Seas Programmes

SDMX: Statistical Data and Metadata exchange http://sdmx.org/

SWIOFC: Southwest Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission, a regional fisheries body

UNEP: United Nations Environment Programme http://www.unep.org/

VME: Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem

VMS: Vessel Monitoring System

WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species

[19]Letters of Support

19.1LIFEWATCH LoS
19.2ICES LoS

1^ Many of these groups function as “stealth” epistemic communities, or pressure groups, with definite agendas, focussing on “hot” issues such as the state of world fisheries, their impact on ecosystems, the role of marine protected areas (MPAs), protection of emblematic species, some forms of ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) or of ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM), co-management, fishing rights and individual transferable quotas (ITQs), etc.

2^ See in appendix Letter of Support 19.2.

3^ "any eventual involvement of European Commission representative as observer will ensure that the participation rules in FP7 are followed"

4^ In addition, iMarine will develop application-specific services as well as interactive interfaces to such services. This development effort is not described here, however, as precise application requirements will emerge during the Service Activities of the project, from a selective analysis of the business cases of Section .

5^ CWP - see http://www.fao.org/fishery/cwp/en ; Eurostat is member of CWP

6^ see http://dgroups.org/Community.aspx?c=4e5f440c-9ac2-4b51-895f-2e9f62f2a05c

7^ Evaluation is expressed through keywords characterising the provenance (internal vs external), the probability (low, medium, high), and the impact level (low impact, medium impact, high impact) respectively.

8^ http://www.eu-emi.eu/

9^ http://hadoop.apache.org/

10^ Evaluation is expressed through keywords characterising the provenance (internal vs external), the probability (low, medium, high), and the impact level (low impact, medium impact, high impact) respectively.

11^ Evaluation is expressed through keywords characterising the provenance (internal vs external), the probability (low, medium, high), and the impact level (low impact, medium impact, high impact) respectively.

12^ The “Consortium Agreement” that will be signed by all project beneficiaries prior to the launch of the project is primarily concerned with project governance mechanisms.

13^ http://public.bcsw.de

14^ http://trac.edgewall.org

15^ http://subversion.tigris.org

16^ ICT Infrastructures for e-Science: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – COM(2009) 108 final.

17^ Coordinating Working Party on Fishery statistics, a statutory body of FAO setting global standards on fishery statistics

18^ Regional Fishery Bodies Secretariat Network

19^ ICT Infrastructures for e-Science: Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament and the Council – COM(2009) 108 final.

20^ A Digital Agenda for Europe : Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions - COM(2010) 245, 19.05.2010 a digital agenda for Europe