Report of Workshop on the Harmonization of Fisheries Information Systems in the South West Indian Ocean region
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The SmartFish harmonization workshop has been conceived as a response to the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission (SWIOFC) 4th Scientific Committee meeting (December 2010) which recommended the development of an action plan for the creation of a Regional Information System of the South West Indian Ocean region. The workshop was held at Pearle Beach Hotel, Flic en Flac, Mauritius from the 2nd to 5th July 2012. As planned, this workshop brought together experts from three relevant existing information systems in the region (StatBase, Western Indian Ocean Fisheries Database and Fisheries Resource Management System) and the FishCode-Status and Trend Fisheries approach to data collection. Each system/approach was represented by two experts. Thanks to good preparatory work during the preceding month, including two web-conferences and three working documents, as well as very lively contributions from all participants, the workshop achieved its objectives: a technical option agreed upo n for the development of the prototype of a harmonized information system, a working methodology, and a road map towards the presentation of the prototype together with sustainability assessment considerations to regional decision-makers during the course of the second quarter of 2013.