The oneFish Team has produced a CD ROM version of the Marine and Coastal Fisheries Worldview in oneFish.

The CD ROM is primarily provided for users who have slow, intermittent or prohibitively expensive internet access, so that they can browse the knowledge offline, before connecting to the internet or sending for items via email. The CD ROM replicates the Marine and Coastal Fisheries worldview and includes all topics, sub-topics and knowledge objects (excluding ephemeral objects such as news, events and jobs), and documents and files uploaded to the oneFish database. Additional links are provided adjacent to web addresses to permit the user to:

• link directly to the item of knowledge via the internet,
• use the FAO Low Bandwidth connection, or
• send for the item via the oneFish WebViaMail service.

The CD ROM includes an introductory screen, help files, and a questionnaire in both English and French, and the interface is also in both languages.

This first CD ROM is a prototype, and as such only a limited number of copies have been produced. If you would like to receive a copy, please contact the Chief Editor: onefish@fao.org

The CD ROM is also available for download

This zip file contains an ISO image of the oneFish Marine and Coastal Fisheries CD ROM: http://www.onefish.org/global/oneFishMarineCoastalCD_092006.zip

To burn to a CD:

1 - Extract the file in a directory

2 - Open the ISO file with a CD ROM burning software, e.g. Roxio Easy CD Creator and follow the program instructions