Under the slogan “fishing for data” 20 participants from 10 countries out of Europe and Africa met for the agri benchmark Fish training on the typical farm approach from February 26^th – 27^th, 2019 in Bremerhaven at the Thünen-Institute.

The training started with an introduction of the typical farm theory in agricultural research with a special focus on the development in USA. Afterwards Cornelia Kreiß and Tobias Lasner described diverse fields of applications of the approach and explained the method in details. The participants dealt with a wide range of examples considering extensive carp grow-outs in Bavaria, salmon net cages in Ireland, cost-benefit-calculations of the implementation of innovative farming techniques or the impacts of climate change on farm level. Beside intensive group work, an excursion to the most modern experimental recirculating aquaculture system in Europe had been an additional highlight.

The workshop took place against the background of the nowadays need for proven and practical methods of economic data collection. Beside agri benchmark partners, participants from the Data Collection Framework of the European Union (DCF) and the Horizon 2020 project Green Aquaculture Intensification (GAIN) participated successfully.

The next agri benchmark Fish training will take place in Prague at November 6^th, 2019.