The document discusses iMarine, an initiative to establish a data infrastructure supporting ecosystem-based fisheries management and marine conservation. It summarizes that iMarine aims to:
1) Launch a collaborative, multidisciplinary initiative providing access to large amounts of heterogeneous marine data through data mining, analysis, and processing capabilities.
2) Establish an international community of practice and enhance an e-infrastructure operated by a responsible entity, offering basic services like collaboration, sharing, visualization, and more.
3) Develop a catalogue of services including processing, analysis, modeling, integration, and more to support work from science to policymaking through virtual research environments.