IMR_2024_EVERYFISH

EveryFish-COCO format specifications. Version 1.0

Dataset Creator	Dataset Title	Dataset Release Date	Dataset Publisher	Dataset DOI	Online Resource
Hang Zhou, Michal Mackiewicz, Iñaki Quincoces, Manuel Cordova Neira, Rocío Castaño Primo, Gert Kootstra, John Reidar Mathisen, Rebecca Skirrow, Serkan Kartal, Ahmad Kamal, Helge Sagen	EveryFish-COCO format specifications. Version 1.0	2026-01-14T00:00:00:00Z	Institute of Marine Research	10.21335/NMDC-450800267	http://metadata.nmdc.no/metadata-api/landingpage/1601d1939b6ec69c2ebb414ec0e3c718

Role	First Name	Last Name	Middle Name
Technical Contact	Helge	Sagen
DIF Author	Arnfinn	Morvik
Investigator	Hang	Zhou
Technical Contact	Michal	Mackiewicz
Technical Contact	Iñaki	Quincoces
Technical Contact	Manuel	Neira	Cordova
Technical Contact	Rocío	Primo	Castaño
Technical Contact	Gert	Kootstra
Technical Contact	John	Mathisen	Reidar
Technical Contact	Rebecca	Skirrow
Technical Contact	Serkan	Kartal
Technical Contact	Ahmad	Kamal

Category	Topic	Term	Variable Level 1
EARTH SCIENCE	OCEANS	AQUATIC SCIENCES	FISHERIES

Oceans

Start Date
2025-12-01

Complete

Location Category	Location Type	Location Subregion1
Ocean	Atlantic Ocean	North Atlantic Ocean

Short Name	Long Name
EVERYFISH. EU Grant agreement ID: 101059892	EVERYFISH. EU Grant agreement ID: 101059892

unrestricted

Institute of Marine Research

Data Center Name	Personnel	Data Center URL
Institute of Marine Research, Norwegian Marine Data Center Institute of Marine Research, Norwegian Marine Data Center	Datacenter Arnfinn Morvik
NO/IMR Institute of Marine Research	Originating institution Helge Sagen	http://www.imr.no

Distribution Media	Distribution Format
ftp	csv

These documents describe the format developed for the annotation and storage of image data targeted for fish detection during the EVERYFISH (https://doi.org/10.3030/101059892) project. It is based, expands, and preserves full compatibility with the COCO (Common Objects in COntext) format, using the same attribute names defined in COCO, and provides additional information about fisheries-related attributes to capture domain relevant information required for fisheries monitoring. This format can also record detailed information for each individual fish, including fish length, weight, and occlusion type. To further support interoperability, a series of controlled vocabularies and standard formats are assigned to most of the attributes. “EVERYFISH-COCO format specifications – v1.0.pdf” is the master document that describes the EVERYFISH-COCO format and file structure. “FAO-Alpha3.csv” and “RECO.csv” are ancillary files that contain December 2025 frozen copies of, respectively, FAO Alpha3 codes for fish and seafood types, and ICES RECO fisheries codes. Links to these codes are can be found in the master document. Here they are provided in separate files due to their length.

URL Content Type	URL
GET DATA	https://ftp.nmdc.no/nmdc/imr/Everyfish/EVERYFISH-COCO-FormatSpecifications-v1.0.pdf
GET DATA	https://ftp.nmdc.no/nmdc/imr/Everyfish/FAO-Alpha3.csv
GET DATA	https://ftp.nmdc.no/nmdc/imr/Everyfish/RECO.csv
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE	https://everyfish.eu/

Norwegian Marine Datacentre

CEOS IDN DIF

9.7.1

2026-01-14T00:00:00:00Z

CC BY 4.0

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