NAFO is mandated by its Contracting Parties to provide scientific advice and implement management measures for theNAFO Regulatory Area in the Northwest Atlantic (defined by the NAFO Convention). NAFO contribute to FIRMSinformation on stocks for which management advice is provided by NAFO Scientific Council to the NAFO FisheriesCommission.
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Data Source
The NAFO Scientific Council Reports and the NAFO Conservation and Enforcement Measures which serve as background documentation for information published on FIRMS are published on the NAFO website.
Quality Assurance
The information contributed conforms to NAFO policy guidelines for confidentiality and information release and to the Information Management Policy established by the FIRMS/FIGIS Steering Committee.
Sources and Traceability Bibliographical sources for the NAFO reports are listed in the stock summary sheets and inthe Scientific Council Summary Documents. Most of the bibliographical source documents are stored on the NAFO website for a limited duration after which time they are available upon request from the NAFO Secretariat. From the FIGIS fact sheets, links point to the relevant NAFO source documents.
Transparency and Peer-Review Details of the NAFO data collection and compilation are provided in thevarious Scientific Council reports, studies, and documents accessible on the NAFO web pages.
Transparency of the information and results on status and trends of stocks and resources presented by NAFO are documented in the course of the scientific peer-review process followed to obtain the results, and the various meetings of the NAFO at which the results, and various options for management and resource conservation, are presented and discussed. Details on these meetings and processes areavailable at the NAFO website.
Consistency and accuracy
Information Security All contributions provided by NAFO are on the public domain. The information contributed to FIRMS resides under the full ownership (hence responsibility) of NAFO. Methods used in authentication and verification of this information lie on the FIRMS security mechanisms, including a role for a NAFO editor and a NAFO approver.
Timeliness
Contacts
Inquiries can be addressed to the Database Manager of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO).
NAFO
2 Morris Drive(Burnside Industrial Park)Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaCanada B3B 1K8
P.O. Box 638Dartmouth, Nova ScotiaCanada B2Y 3Y9
Telephone: +1 902 468-5590
Fax: +1 902 468-5538
Disclaimer
This is an extract of the NAFO fisheries advice presenting the fish stock information. The full NAFO advice is available on http://www.nafo.int and accounts for fisheries constraints in addition to the stock considerations.
