The European Union (EU) Fisheries and Aquaculture Products Database is a beta version (still under construction) of the EU database on fishery and aquaculture products. It is an information system prototype on the commercial names of fishery and aquaculture products marketed in the EU. The prototype is the result of a pilot project that involves several partners, including the National Research Council - Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR) of Ancona (Italy), funded by the European Union and co-ordinated by the Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DGMARE).
The project aims to provide a complete information system, available in all official EU languages. Nevertheless, due to its pilot project nature, it is possible that some inaccuracies or inconsistencies may occur, particularly linguistic.
The purpose of this information system is to provide consumers and all stakeholders with information on fishery and aquaculture products through a centralized multilingual system. The information system focuses primarily on trade names. It also includes species names, FAO codes, marketing standards, catch zones and fishing gear. The system is a reference point for all users in the EU, whether they are consumers, traders, or control authorities.
While still in the experimental phase, the site is not accessible through normal search engines (google, bing, etc.), but it's enough to type in your browser (either PC or smartphone and tablet) the following address:
https://mare.istc.cnr.it/fisheries/demo/index.xhtml?lang=en
Your suggestions, your directions, and more generally all your observations are very important. To help you with this task, we've created an online questionnaire that will take you a few minutes of compilation but will provide us with important information to improve and modify the web portal more effectively. The questionnaire can be reached at the following link (both in Italian and English):
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/8d257484-48f0-4965-9dff-de43dd83da80?draftid=87b702d5-379f-4a88-abff-66d90e6fd603&surveylanguage=EN
Hopefully you will find the service offered by this useful portal, thank you for your cooperation.
This looks very interesting. I know in Australia there are a lot of marine products traded under incorrect names. I will have a look at the site and fill out the questionnaire.
All the best.
Thank you very much Damon. Show it to your colleagues also. Thanks again.
Thank you Noori, can you answer the questionnaire please? Your feedback will be very important.
thnak you very much
Here it is Noori, copy and paste on the browser
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/8d257484-48f0-4965-9dff-de43dd83da80?draftid=87b702d5-379f-4a88-abff-66d90e6fd603&surveylanguage=EN
Hi Claudio,
check your database against FishBase (www.fishbase.org) and SeaLifeBase (www.sealifebase.org) as well as WORLd Register of Marine Species to make sure the underlying taxonomy and nomenclature is accurate and up-to-date. Commercial names are always a headache and prone to facilitate misunderstandings to favour commerce or, worse, fraud. So linking commercial names to scientific names is an important effort towards more transparency in the often murky waters of the seafood trade.
Dear Cornelia,
thank you very much fro your answer and suggestions. The technicians working on the informatic part of the database made a huge effort to extrapolate scientific names as well as commercial names (they made all the work by hands). Consider that the prototype of the database is not updated to the last species revisions just because of its nature of prototype. For sure, when DGMARE will give its ok to the project all the "nomenclature" issues will be fixed with the last updates. Nevertheless, your constant help will be appreciated since errors may occur as well.
Thank you again and if you would like, please answer the questionnaire reported in the question I made.
Thank you
Claudio
hi guys, the EU commeette officially published the EU Commercial Designiations database. Here the link:
https://mare.istc.cnr.it/fisheriesv2/home?lang=en
Please, visit it and then answer to the questionnaire
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/EUdenominazioniDATABASE
Thank you very much.
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