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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
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