The Science Information Division developed a Species Information System (SIS) to serve as a data analysis and archiving tool containing species information across NOAA Fisheries program offices. This application will provide users with Web-enabled data entry, retrieval, and reporting capabilities for fisheries analysis and evaluation.

Marine Fisheries Stock Assessment Improvement Plan Application (SAIP), which is an enhancement of Species Information System. SAIP serves as an important tool to

• report agency performance measures.
• improve the Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and business processes within Headquarters (HQ) Offices.
• SAIP provides an analysis of three major categories of information required as input to stock assessments
  • catch,
  • abundance, and
  • life history.
• These categories are assigned various levels of completeness and availability and are used to derive an overall ranking for the quality and sophistication of an assessment relative to a stock/run. With the addition of assessment frequency, an evaluation of the monitoring program associated for a particular stock/run is available. By connecting this information to the SIS database’s existing report metrics, a complete picture of not only stock/run status, but also how well these stock/runs are being monitored can be ascertained.

Additional phase was the development of OLO. The Our Living Oceans-Resources (OLO-R) component of the Species Information System will archive and support real-time updates to the OLO-R database and controlled-access for regional stock assessment coordinators and headquarters staff. On-demand web-based capability for national and regional reports will be supported as well as downloadable spreadsheet files for other uses.