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Workshop with Policy-makers and stakeholders

A National workshop with Scientists, Policy-makers and Stakeholders was held in Toronto on January 5 and 6, 2011. More details

FARO Project

A new CSA-funded programme, FARO (Fisheries Applications in Remotely sensed Ocean colour), was launched in Spring 2010. To go to the FARO website, click here…

SAFARI International Symposium, Feb. 2010

Links to proceedings and MarineBizTV video clips from the SAFARI International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Fisheries (February 15-17, 2010, Kochi, India) can be found here…

IOCCG Monograph

IOCCG Report 8, entitled "Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture", has been published and is now available for distribution. A digital copy can be found here…

Science Articles

A series of Spring 2009 articles in Science takes a look at shrimp populations, algal blooms and climate change. More…



International Workshop on the Use of Remotely-Sensed Data as an Aid to Fisheries Research and Fisheries Management


Held at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - March 26-28, 2008

The International Workshop on the Use of Remotely-Sensed Data as an Aid to Fisheries Research and Fisheries Management was held to gauge the current status of Earth Observation (EO) as related to fisheries management, and to bring together EO experts and fisheries experts from a range of relevant space agencies, environmental agencies and other EO communities. Issues of mutual concern were discussed at the workshop, and an outline for an IOCCG monograph on this topic was drafted at the end of the workshop, with input from all invited participants.

The agenda for this event can be downloaded here; the list of participants can be found here.