On the fisherman's boat, catching much fish at the mouth of the Bangpakong river in Chachengsao Province east of Thailand.
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Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) and the Hilborn Lab at the University of Washington have launched their Fishery Improvement Projects Database (FIP-DB) update which provides data collection to monitor and improve fishing projects worldwide.
FIP-DB gathers straightaway data from public platforms, such as SFP's Improvement Projects Tracker and FisheryProgress.org, from FIPs and their programs. This tool has been operating since 2003, gathering information from over 340 FIPs and 400 fish stocks in over 1,000 fisheries worldwide.
"As the database continues to expand, so does its contribution to research, with several peer-reviewed studies already relying on FIP-DB data," explained Pedro Veiga, senior scientist at SFP.
Moreover, FIP-DB offers a dashboard with visualizations and performance indicators on the FIP landscape. Finally, the website provides details on the database structure, including its variables, data fields, and sources.
In addition to researchers, FIP-DB is used by nonprofit organizations for their conservation and advocacy efforts, the seafood industry to help businesses with sustainability, and government agencies to inform and make policy and regulatory decisions.
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For example, managing director Max Levine and associate Aaron Saliman from CEA Consulting, a company that assists with regulatory processes and policy issues to improve environmental performance, indicated: "The 2025 edition of CEA's Global Review of Fishery Improvement Projects could not proceed without the robust data provided by FIP-DB. Our exploration of the global FIP landscape and our quantitative analyses rely extensively on the database."
Founded in 2006, Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP) is a marine conservation organization working toward a world where the oceans are healthy, all seafood is produced sustainably, and everyone has access to sustainable seafood.
Its Supply Chain Roundtables (SRs) allow seafood suppliers to work together in a pre-competitive environment to promote and support improvements in fishery and aquaculture practices, management, and policy.