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• Statistics
• New issues
• Forthcoming events
• Recently added content
• New Web site
• Training opportunities

• Geographic information systems (GIS) to support the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF). This publication (supported by the EAF-Nansen project) is intended to be a guide to methods that readers could adopt for their own use of GIS for an EAF. The EAF recognizes that fish are only one, albeit important, part of a much wider ecosystem incorporating an array of physical and biological components that humans interact with and exploit. Further information and a link to where you can download the full text are available in Capture Fisheries section under the list of most recent publications.
  


• Recently-published FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Proceedings, “The potential of spatial planning tools to support the ecosystem approach to aquaculture”, based on an Expert Workshop, reviews the status and potential of such spatial planning tools in implementing the EAA. The paper includes the workshop report summarizing the salient contributions from participants, and one review.
  

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• GISFish visitors:  GISFish visitors: The total number of visits to the publications section of GISFish from April 2010 to date totals over 550,000 and the overall number of publications downloads from GISFish have been over 10,500.
• GISFish Members:  To date, there are 256 members from 68 different countries.
• African Water Resource Database:  180 different datasets have been downloaded from the AWRD archive from 1 April 2010 to date. The total number of downloads from around the world have been 3,500. The top ten datasets downloaded are:
  1. GLC-2000 Based 1 km Global Land Cover - Africa
  2. RWDB2 Subnational-Ad2 Linear Boundaries
  3. VMap0 Major Road Library Reference
  4. HYDRO-1 Kilometer Watershed Model
  5. 2.5d Colored ETopo5 Terrain/Bathymetry
  6. RWDB2 River-Surface Water Body Network
  7. Major Soils for Africa - FAO 1:5 Million Scale Soils Derived
  8. WRI Major Watersheds of the World Delineation
  9. Lake Tanganyika LandSat ETM+ Baseline Image Catalog
  10. SRTM River-Surface Water Bodies
• Top Referenced URL from 1 April 2010 to date:  SPEAR Sustainable options for People, catchment and Aquatic Resources
• For more details on statistics of the GISFish Web site see “site statistics” (Requires login).

• 8th International Conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing and the Environment (AARSE), 25-29 October 2010, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
• Fifth International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences (Wellington, New Zealand, Aug 22-26, 2012)

• The “ NASO map collection ” consists of maps using “Google Maps and Google Earth” technology to assist member countries to inventory and monitor aquaculture. The collection is in its early stages but holds potential use in a number of ways such monitoring status and trends of aquaculture development, and addressing site selection and zoning issues. The National Aquaculture Sector Overview (NASO) map collection is coordinated by the Aquaculture Service of the FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department in close collaboration with FAO’s Fisheries and Aquaculture Statistics and Information Service.

Aquaculture

• Sistema de identificacion de instalaciones de acuicultura
• Spatial analysis and remote sensing for the sustainable development of off-the-coast and offshore aquaculture from a global perspective
• GIS/spatial analyses in fishery and aquatic sciences (volume 4)
• GIS-embedded modelling tools for water quality and shellfisheries management
• A New Album of Global Earth Imagery (Free Data)
• Marine Aquaculture Site Mapping (MASM) (Brunswick, Canada)
• Aquaculture Lease Mapping (Prince Edward Is., Canada)
• Open Source Geospatial Foundation

Capture Fisheries

• Habitat characteristics of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the western North Pacific: a remote sensing perspective
• Abundance distribution patterns of commercial shrimp off Northwestern Mexico modeled with geographic information systems [Patrones de distribución de la abundancia de camarón comercial en el Noroeste de México, modelados con sistemas de información geográfica]
• Analysis of demersal fish assemblages off the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea (central Mediterranean)
• Artisanal fisheries in the conservation zones of the Upper Gulf of California [Pesca artesanal en las zonas de conservación del Alto Golfo de California]
• Using fishers' local knowledge to aid management at regional scales: Spatial distribution of small-scale fisheries in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico
• Ecosystem-based analysis of a marine protected area where fisheries and protected species coexist
• Reef habitat area of the endangered Napoleon fish, Cheilinus undulatus (CITES Appendix II), estimated using remote sensing and GIS

• GIS Advanced Field Studies Certificate
• Online Certificate in Geographic Information Systems