The report of the third iMarine Board Meeting is now avalaible for download. The meeting took place at FAO Headquarters in Rome on 25 and 26 March, 2013. For a detailed description of the outcomes of the meetings, read iMarine's blog iMarine - The journey ahead.

The Board meeting was followed by the iMarine Advisory Council Meeting on Wednesday 27 March 2013: An important objective of this meeting was to provide the Advisory Council with directions on project progress and opportunities for the developed products and services.

The first day of the meeting was therefore focused on iMarine products and services, whilst the second day discussed the policies and governance models that provide the enabling environment for a sustainable infrastructure.

iMarine

iMarine (Data e-Infrastructure Initiative for Fisheries Management and Conservation of Marine Living Resources) is an open and collaborative initiative that will establish a data infrastructure to support the Ecosystem Approach to fisheries management and conservation of marine living resources.

iMarine empowers practitioners and policy makers from multiple scientific fields such as fisheries, biodiversity and ocean observation. The iMarine infrastructure will ensure that otherwise dispersed and heterogeneous data is available to all stakeholder communities through a shared virtual environment that brings together multidisciplinary data sources, supports cross-cutting scientific analysis, and assists communication.

iMarine is co-funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7. The project was launched in November 2011 and will end in April 2014.