7 October 2009 “Stability Education for Fishermen – A Success Story” (Formación sobre estabilidad para pescadores – Una historia de éxito) John Krgovich. Coordinador de Programa de Estabilidad, Fish Safe BC,Canada. Barb Howe. Fishing Vessel Stability Education Program, Fish Safe BC. [more...]

21 August 2009 Training manual for safety at sea and safety for fishermen. The manual is developed for traininers in West Africa under the West African component of the Safety at sea for small-scale fisheries in developing countries (GCP/GLO/200/MUL). [more...]

25 November 2009 Meeting documents [more...]

24 November 2009 D4Science, the innovative European e-infrastructure project involving 11 partners, will hold its first world user meeting from 25-26 November 2009 at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations headquarters (Rome, Italy). D4Science aims to establish networking, grid-based and data-centric e-infrastructures that accelerate multidisciplinary research, with emphasis on earth science monitoring applications and a current focus on fisheries and aquatic biodiversity. The two-day meeting will focus on: sharing experiences, best practices and discuss the most recent advances in e Infrastructures with emphasis on how to exploit possible synergies; showcasing the latest D4Science experiences in building dynamic monitoring progress reports, and the most recent results in harmonization and combination of distributed structured data sources for generation of enhanced indicators; identifying the perspectives of the user communities and discuss the road map for D4Science-II Virtual Research Environments. For more information visit the D4Science site. The new EU-funded project D4Science-II ('Data infrastructure ecosystem for science') has held its kick-off meeting from 13 to 16 October in Pisa, Italy [more...]