About FISHGLOB

 

FISHGLOB is an international consortium of scientists who collect, curate, share, and use data from scientific bottom trawl surveys. These surveys are one of the most widespread and long-running forms of ocean ecosystem monitoring, providing invaluable time-series of marine fish biodiversity over decades of global change. Our consortium has three goals: to provide standardized metadata, to harmonize disparate bottom trawl surveys, and to create an international community of practice. FISHGLOB’s goals and accomplishments are described in a recent preprint.

 

Since June 2023, FISHGLOB is a UN Ocean Decade project, co-led by Aurore Maureaud, Bastien Mérigot, and Deng Palomares. From 2020-2023, a FISHGLOB working group led by Bastien Mérigot and Deng Palomares was funded by the French Biodiversity Foundation (FRB-CESAB), the Canadian Institute for Ecology & Evolution (CIEE), and the French embassy in Canada.