Report of the Steering Committee for the Regional Database FishFrame (SCRDB)

The Steering Committee for the Regional Database FishFrame (RDB-SC) met 8-9 January 2014 at ICES HQ, Copenhagen Denmark. It was the fifth meeting of the committee. Participants were representatives from the RCM Baltic, RCM North Sea and Eastern Arctic, RCM North Atlantic, ICES as well as observers from the RDB-SC for Large Pelagic Fish (LPF) and Spain. The RDB-SC is responsible for strategic planning, technical governance, operational issues and estimates of costs in the overall governance of the regional database (RDB). The RDB-SC interacts with the Regional Coordination Meetings (RCMs) and Liaison Meeting (LM) on other tasks such as development needs and content governance.