1. Unexpected Mega-Users of ICES Data Rainer Froese Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences Kiel, Germany

2. GBIF Where and when has what species been encountered by whom (can be anonymous) Highly successful Distributed system (DiGIR, XML) with central cache www.gbif.org Wants point data from ICES community

3. OBIS Ocean Biogeographic Information System Data & Tools Portal of the Census of Marine Life What lives where in the Ocean, and how much of it Distributed system with central cache (DiGIR, XML) www.iobis.org Wants point data and (later) effort data from ICES community

4. MarBEF European network of excellence for marine biodiversity EurOBIS Distributed system with central cache (DiGIR, XML) www.marbef.org Wants access to all marine data in Europe

5. FishBase Key information on all fishes (LF, LW, Growth, Maturity, Diet, Predators, Reproduction, Productivity, Resilience) Most widely used biological information system DiGIR Provider for GBIF, OBIS, MarBEF,… Hybrid system: 2/3 central, half of this annual copies, 1/3 distributed www.fishbase.org Wants LF, LW, VBGF, Lm, tm, Fec, stomach content from ICES (and points through OBIS)

6. About 10,000 visitors per month

7. General Public Info on state of publicly owned natural resources Advice on what seafood is recommended or discouraged for consumption

8. Reality Check April 2005 Student requested LF Data for Thesis 01.11.04 Formal request submitted to ICES for LF data 10 contacts (email, phone, visit) and 5 months later: a lot of confusion and still no data Solution: manually read data off bar- graphs from working group report