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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…


The SAFARI Initiative

Earth observation has a great deal of potential to benefit society through activities covered generally under the heading Fisheries and Aquaculture (see article from Platt et al. in "The Full Picture", GEO publication, 2007). The primary objective of the SAFARI Project is to integrate the activities of selected experts in fisheries and Earth Observation (EO) to accelerate the pace of assimilation of EO into fisheries research and ecosystem-based fisheries management on a world scale. SAFARI will also help to build capacity at the science level and the operational level, and facilitate the application of rapidly evolving satellite technology to fisheries management questions.





Earth Observation Initiatives

Existing Projects


Among the existing elements that will be highlighted under SAFARI are:


New Projects


The following are some examples of the kinds of projects that will be developed under SAFARI: