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© 2025 The Author(s). Conservation Science and Practice published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Conservation Biology. Large-scale biodiversity assessments and conservation applications require integrated and up-to-date datasets across regions. In the oceans, monitoring is fragmented, which affects knowledge exchange and usage. Among existing monitoring programs, scientific bottom-trawl surveys (SBTS) are long-term, rich, and well-maintained data sources at the scale of each sampled region, but these data are under-utilized in biodiversity applications, especially across regions. This is hampered by the lack of an international community and database maintained through time. To address this, we created FISHGLOB, an infrastructure gathering SBTS and experts. In 5 years, we developed an integrated database of SBTS and a consortium gathering more than 100 experts and users. Here, we are sharing the project history, achievements, challenges, and outlooks. In particular, we reflect on the infrastructure-building social and technical processes which will guide the development of similar infrastructures. The FISHGLOB project takes ocean monitoring one step forward in working as a unified community across disciplines and regions of the world.
Author(s): Maureaud AA, Kitchel Z, Fredston A, Guralnick R, Palacios-Abrantes J, Palomares MLD, Pinsky ML, Shackell NL, Thorson JT, Alemany D, Amador K, Bandara RMWJ, Belmaker J, Beukhof ED, Bograd SJ, Camara ML, Carbonara P, Chaikin S, Collins MA, Eddy TD, Edelist D, Fock HO, Frelat R, Friedland K, Gruss A, Hidalgo M, Jouffre D, Kide SO, Koen-Alonso M, Knuckey I, Kotwicki S, Lavender E, Lindegren M, Llope M, Mannocci L, Mason JG, Masski H, McLean M, Merillet L, Mihneva V, Nunoo FKE, O'Driscoll RL, O'Leary C, Pecuchet L, Petrova E, Ramos JE, Sobrino I, Solmundsson J, Soni V, Spies I, Spedicato MT, Stephenson F, Thiam N, Tserkova F, Tserpes G, Tzanatos E, van Denderen D, Vasilakopoulos P, Webb T, Yepsen DV, Ziegler P, Zupa W, Merigot B
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Conservation Science and Practice
Year: 2025
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 10/05/2025
Acceptance date: 19/02/2025
Date deposited: 20/05/2025
ISSN (electronic): 2578-4854
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70035
DOI: 10.1111/csp2.70035
Data Access Statement: All data described in this article are public. Bottom trawl survey metadata are taken from a previous publication (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15404). Descriptions of bottom trawl survey data are based on a previous publication (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02866-w). The availability assessment of trawl surveys is based on public repositories, and all links are provided in the supplementary information table.
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