QIM Eurofish Strategic Alliance. As the QIM method has been developed and proved to be a quality assessment method that is more finely tuned than other grading methods used today, it is considered a valuable tool that may replace other methods. Further, it is being developed for more and more specific fish species, increasing its power as an overall assessment method. The determination of the exact QIM calibration scale must however be worked out with extreme precision and must be properly validated. A quality assurance must thus be observed for the QIM method as such.For this reason the directors of the Netherlands Institute for Fisheries Research, The Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Department of Seafood Research and the Icelandic Fisheries laboratories have decided to establish a strategic alliance called QIM Eurofish with the aim of promoting the sound use of the QIM method for quality assessment.