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PART 3 HIGHLIGHTS OF ONGOING STUDIES BOX 22 UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS FOR STOCKS AND FISHERIES of regional fisheries bodies and their member countries, the fish food industry (from suppliers to retailers), national government agencies dealing with stocks and fisheries reporting, researchers analysing the state of global fishery resources, NGOs promoting sustainable fisheries, consumers and the general public. So far, the unique identifiers for stocks and fisheries have been used to support development of global, regional or national state of stocks indicators and public and private ecolabelling and traceability initiatives for sustainable fisheries. Unique identification of stocks and fisheries under a shared harmonized standard could be the basis for the application of additional technologies for fish traceability, such as blockchain technology (see “Disruptive technologies” in Part 4). The Global Record of Stocks and Fisheries (GRSF) is an initiative funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 BlueBRIDGE project that seeks harmonization among the standards used by international, regional and national data providers to allow a standardized global view of the status of fisheries. GRSF assigns unique identifiers to stocks and fisheries: a machine- readable universally unique identifier (UUID) and a human-readable semantic identifier with codes and labels (Figure 44) (Tzitzikas et al., 2017). GRSF enables management of a comprehensive and transparent inventory of stocks and fisheries records across multiple data providers to facilitate and promote monitoring of stocks and fisheries status and trends. It thus aims to stimulate responsible consumer practices. The information in GRSF is intended to serve the needs FIGURE 44 EXAMPLE OF A SEMANTIC IDENTIFIER (ID) AND A UNIVERSALLY UNIQUE IDENTIFIER (UUID) FOR STOCKS AND FISHERIES STANDARD CODING SYSTEM FOR: „ „ Stocks + „ „ Fisheries + + + + EXAMPLE OF SEMANTIC IDENTIFIER, AND OF ITS FULL LABEL asfis:COD + fao:21.3.M + authority:INT:NAFO + isscfg:03.12 + iso3:LTU Gadus morhua - Atlantic, Northwest/21.3.M - Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) - NAFO area of competence - Single boat bottom otter trawls - Lithuania Species: Gadus morhua Species code: COD Fishing Area: FAO 21.3.M Management Authority: Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Jurisdiction: NAFO area of competence Fishing Gear: Single boat bottom otter trawls Fishing Gear code: 03.12 Flag State: Lithuania Flag State Code: LTU ID: asfis:COD + fao:21.3.M + authority:INT:NAFO + isscfg:03.12 + iso3:LTU UUID: http://.../b99fd03e-709e-3139-9f5d-133df0b103fd | 150 |