FAO Species Identification and Data Programme (SIDP) Improve the identification of marine organisms of actual and potential interest to fisheries.- Provide and disseminate tools to facilitate species identification in fisheries, and in so doing, improve fisheries data quality.
- Provide a global and coherent system of scientific and common nomenclature.
Priority is assigned to resources of major commercial importance or threatened and to developing regions facing difficulties in species identification. |
- Secure the best up-to-date information calling upon knowledgeable specialists in taxonomy.
- Compile information on species distribution to produce distribution maps.
- Draw reliable and accurate illustrations of marine organisms and their anatomical details.
- Produce and distribute through different media, species identification information for fishery purposes.
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