The Tuna Atlas VRE is a tool to handle public domain data from various (Tuna) Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (T-RFMOs). Data include catches, fishing efforts and size frequencies of the species managed by the five tuna RFMOs:
CCSBT- Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
IATTC- Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
ICCAT- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
IOTC- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
WCPFC - Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
Tuna Atlas provides services to discover the available datasets at regional and global levels, extract them in several formats widely used by the scientific community (e.g. CSV, NetCDF, SDMX) and visualize them in an interactive web-viewer of indicators and maps. It also includes tools for the users to generate their own Tuna atlas by applying own processing (e.g. applying specific choices for scientific corrections) on the tuna RFMOs data.
The Tuna Atlas VRE enables to access data discovery, storing, sharing, access, process, visualization services through a single environment.
This environment is collaborative: anyone can enrich it with new data and processes, making them available to the whole community.
The services proposed by the VRE can be used outside of its context: they can easily be integrated within other websites. As an example, the interactive web-viewer of indicators and maps can be ported within partners websites.
The VRE offers powerful on-line computing resources and unloads users from recurrent issues when sharing data or codes and working locally - like software version issues.