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.