Gayanilo Speaks at 'Fishackathon:Sustainable Fishery Challenge'                             Felimon Gayanilo Felimon Gayanilo, Systems Architect working on our GRIIDC and GCOOS Data Management projects, was invited as a speaker and mentor to the first ‘Fishackathon: Sustainable Fishery Challenge’ sponsored by the Department of State (http://www.fishackathon.co/). Five areas (Silicon Valley, Boston, Baltimore, New York and Miami) participated in the event that started June 13, and participants used the whole weekend to design, develop and present a prototype of their products. Mr. Gayanilo was hosted by Venture Hive in Miami (http://miamifishackathon.splashthat.com/) with other fisheries experts in the area that had experience working in developing countries. The Secretary’s Office of Global Partnership announced two winners of the event through a Google+ Hangout event (https://plus.google.com/events/c7r9c9325uu26gr1i3id5aav7v8). The challenges presented to participating software developers were to resolve issues related to implementation of fishing regulations in Ghana and data collection of captured fishery in the Philippines. Mr. Gayanilo, the author of the FAO-ICLARM Fish Stock Assessment Tools (FiSAT; see http://www.fao.org/3/a-y5997e/), a software package that is still in used in a number of developing countries, focused his talks on how data are lost in situations such as those experienced in developing countries. The intent of the talk was to present areas where technology can be introduced to minimize data losses and improve data collection in either collecting statistical data for management of the resources or in monitoring the implementation of fishing regulations.