_____________________________________________ From: VanAnrooy, Raymon (FAOSLC) Dear All, The following FAO/FI publication (Fish identification tools for biodiversity and fisheries assessments: review and guidance for decision-makers.) has been printed and was released on the FAO Web site. It is hopefully of use to those of you working on fish identification in the multi-species, multi-gears context of the Caribbean region. Please see below. FAO would very much appreciate if you could bring this publication to the attention of interested parties you may be in contact with. Kind regards, Raymon van Anrooy Fisheries and Aquaculture Officer FAO Subregional Office for the Caribbean *********************************************************************** Fish identification tools for biodiversity and fisheries assessments: review and guidance for decision-makers. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 585. Rome, FAO. 2013. 107 pp This review provides an appraisal of existing, state-of-the-art fish identification (ID) tools (including some in the initial stages of their development) and shows their potential for providing the right solution in different real-life situations. The ID tools reviewed are: Use of scientific experts (taxonomists) and folk local experts, taxonomic reference collections, image recognition systems, field guides based on dichotomous keys; interactive electronic keys (e.g. IPOFIS), morphometrics (e.g. IPez), scale and otolith morphology, genetic methods (Single nucleotide polymorphisms [SNPs] and Barcode [BOL]) and Hydroacoustics. The review is based on the results and recommendations of the workshop "Fish Identification Tools for Fishery Biodiversity and Fisheries Assessments", convened by FAO FishFinder and the University of Vigo and held in Vigo, Spain, from 11 to 13 October 2011. It is expected that it will help fisheries managers, environmental administrators and other end users to select the best available species identification tools for their purposes The publication can be downloaded here: http://www.fao.org/docrep/019/i3354e/i3354e.pdf For more information about this publication, please contact Ms. Johanne Fischer at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the Carib-Agri-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(Carib-Agri-L,SIGNOFF);