FISHGLOB: A collaborative infrastructure to bridge the gap between scientific monitoring and marine biodiversity conservation

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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.

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Authors/Creators:	Maureaud, A.A. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4778-9443 Kitchel, Z. Fredston, A. Guralnick, R. Palacios‐Abrantes, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8969-5416 Palomares, M.L.D. Pinsky, M.L. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8523-8952 Shackell, N.L. Thorson, J.T. Alemany, D. Amador, K. Bandara, R.M.W.J. Belmaker, J. Beukhof, E.D. Bograd, S.J. Camara, M.L. Carbonara, P. Chaikin, S. Collins, M.A. Eddy, T.D. Edelist, D. Fock, H.O. Frelat, R. Friedland, K. Grüss, A. Hidalgo, M. Jouffre, D. Kidé, S.O. Koen‐Alonso, M. Knuckey, I. Kotwicki, S. Lavender, E. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8040-7489 Lindegren, M. Llope, M. Mannocci, L. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8147-8644 Mason, J.G. Masski, H. McLean, M. Merillet, L. Mihneva, V. Nunoo, F.K.E. O'Driscoll, R.L. O'Leary, C. Pecuchet, L. Petrova, E. Ramos, J.E. Sobrino, I. Sólmundsson, J. Soni, V. Spies, I. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5177-276X Spedicato, M.T. Stephenson, F. Thiam, N. Tserkova, F. Tserpes, G. Tzanatos, E. van Denderen, D. Vasilakopoulos, P. Webb, T. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9320-0068 Yepsen, D.V. Ziegler, P. Zupa, W. Mérigot, B.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2025 The Authors. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords:	biodiversity monitoring; bottom trawl surveys; community-building; dataset integration; global change; knowledge transfer; marine fish; species conservation
Dates:	Accepted: 19 February 2025 Published (online): 10 May 2025 Published: 10 May 2025
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Psychology (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	05 Jun 2025 08:51
Last Modified:	05 Jun 2025 08:51
Published Version:	https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.70035
Status:	Published online
Publisher:	Wiley
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1111/csp2.70035
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:227415

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