Advice and data on fishing opportunities is the theme of a new app designed for the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES).
The adviceXplorer provides direct links to fishing opportunity advice sheets published in the ICES library, which contain the official ICES advice.
ICES says the app is fully integrated with it databases and services and “designed to allow the user to quickly visualize and access the data used for the advice”.
Users can search for advice on over 200 fish stocks by using an interactive map of ICES eco-regions.
It also has s additional filtering options such as assessment year, stock code, and species.
Once a fish stock is selected, the trends over time, advice values, and catch scenarios are displayed through interactive plots and tables.
The data displayed in each graph can be downloaded with a button located in the top-right corner of each graph.
ICES expert groups contribute directly to adviceXplorer by uploading their stock information to its databases.
ICES says that the adviceXplorer app only displays published fishing opportunity advice.
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