STFPOPSTM The third virtual meeting of the Project Science Team (PST) for the project on “Creating a phytoplankton-fishery

Microsoft Word - Summary_Third PST meeting SUMMARY OF THE THIRD FISHPHYTO PROJECT SCIENCE TEAM MEETING The third virtual meeting of the Project Science Team (PST) for the project on “Creating a phytoplankton-fishery observing program for sustaining local communities in Indonesian coastal waters” (FishPhytO), funded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Japan, through the. [...] The Research Organization for Electronics and Informatics under the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) will fund a 1-year project on “Utilization of Oceanographic and Landsat Satellite Image Data for Monitoring Eutrophication and Abundance of Fishery Resources in the TWP area”. [...] The Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA) of Japan is considering a possibility of allocating 1,500,000 JPY (~$14,000 CAD) from the FRA President Fund for FishPhytO-related activities for the period from April 1, 2024 to March 31, 2025 and, likely, the similar amount for the period from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2026. [...] According to the Project Principles documents for all PICES/MAFF projects, “ownership of the outcomes of the project, including materials, data, copyright and intellectual property rights, will be vested to PICES and the Government of Japan”, and this means that FishGIS, as one of outcomes of these projects, belongs to both PICES and the Government of Japan (MAFF). [...] MAFF is considering to issue a document that (1) allows to modify the current version of the FishGIS application and to provide this application to other projects or businesses, including for a fee, and (2) confirms that MAFF will not claim ownership of any data collected from the use of the FishGIS application by PICES or any such projects or businesses.