One of the major priorities identified in The State of the World's Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and highlighted in the policy response The Global Plan of Action for the Conservation, Sustainable Use and Development of Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, was to "establish and strengthen national and global characterization, monitoring and information systems for aquatic genetic resources". This priority includes:

• Promotion of a globally standardized use of terminology, nomenclature and descriptions of aquatic genetic resources for food and agriculture;
• Improved and harmonized reporting procedures and expanded existing species-based information systems to cover unreported AqGR; and
• Development, promotion and institutionalization of national, regional and global standardized information systems for the collection, validation, monitoring and reporting on AqGR below the level of species (i.e. farmed types and stocks).

In response to calls from the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the COFI Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, the Federal Republic of Germany has supported FAO to develop a global information system on farmed types and wild stocks of AqGR, known as AquaGRIS. A prototype of AquaGRIS was released in March 2022 and, following some updates and the inclusion of the capacity to record information on wild stocks of AqGR, the full version was released in June 2024. The full version of AquaGRIS consists of an online user-interface for data-entry and a user-interface for data dissemination as illustrated below.