The Red Iberoamericana de Investigación Pesquera (INVIPESCA) or Ibero-American Network for Fisheries Research, made up of 14 bodies from 12 countries (amongst others, the technological centre expert in marine and food research, AZTI-Tecnalia and the Institute of Marine Research of CSIC), and coordinated by the Spanish Oceanographic Institute (IEO), has its new blog available, a virtual space for encouraging collaboration amongst researchers throughout the whole of Ibero-America.

In this virtual space that has just been launched, INVIPESCA will gather together the main news, novelties, events and official announcements for researchers. Moreover, this blog will be a place for sharing experiences, interchanging information and, above all, fomenting contact between and the launching of new international projects in the scientific research field and in the management of the sustainable exploitation of fishing resources, both for industrial-scale fishing and for the traditional fishing fleets.

The main novelty of this space is the creation of the Ibero-American Map of Fisheries Research, an interactive tool enabling the rapid and easy consultation of information regarding the various fisheries research bodies in Ibero-American countries; a map that has a research tool which uses key words. This enables researchers from the different countries to locate other work teams with common interests, thus enabling the generating of synergies, the interchange of ideas and the launching of transnational projects with the aim of improving the development of scientific knowledge in the field of fisheries research.

Translation: Basque Research