Reef Life Survey becomes one of the external sources of species information in FishBase through deep linking. RLS can be found under “Internet Sources” of each species summary page in FishBase, e.g. Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839). Meanwhile, links to FishBase are now up on the Reef Life Survey species pages too, e.g. see bottom left,…
August marks the official kick off of the “Ocean Song Contest“, OSC for short, an amusing online game about songs of and for the oceans, originally conceptualized and designed by Dr. Rainer Froese (Senior Scientist at GEOMAR and long-term FishBase Coordinator) earlier this year to make ocean conservation campaigns and donating more fun…
On July 6th of 2017, the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), officially awarded the Le Cren Medal to the FishBase Consortium and the entire FishBase Team, in honor of their valuable and lifelong contribution to fisheries science: “the world’s largest information portal of marine organisms”. The FSBI is an international learned society that promotes the interests…
The “Global marine fisheries discards: A synthesis of reconstructed data” provided estimates for discards in all major fisheries in the world, as part of the global marine fisheries catch reconstruction project conducted by the Sea Around Us . It is co-authored by Maria Lourdes Palomares (PhD), Q-quatics board member, and…
Just in time for Shark Week, an annual celebration devoted to shark conservation and popularized by Discovery Channel, UBC climate change expert and Q-quatics Boart of Trustees Vice Chair Dr. Wiliam Cheung made a jaw-dropping revelation, that great white sharks are about to make a splash off British Columbia waters! According to Dr. Cheung…
FishBase now has species-to-species links to MitoFish, the Mitochondrial Genome Database of Fish, developed by the University of Tokyo and led by Dr. Wataru Iwasaki. These links make it easy for MitoFish users to check the image, distribution and other relevant information currently available for each species. The availability of data from FishBase…
Pristine our oceans might never be But huge promise our actions speak If there’s courage to conserve them all Neither selfish agendas nor pointing brawls What if we listen, act on one call? Profound changes there are Pollution, acidification, extinction Bleaching, spillage, suffocation But future ain’t black and white…
The Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources – National Fisheries Development and Research Institute (BFAR-NFRDI), in coordination with FishBase and SeaLifeBase, organized a workshop entitled “Introduction to Data-Limited Stock Assessment Using CMSY/BSM“ on 13 January 2017 held at IRRI – Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. The said joint activity was an avenue to introduce…
Following the first Q-quatics board meeting on 16 January 2017 was a seminar by Dr. William Cheung on, “Applying macroecology to project future changes in marine ecosystems under climate change” held at the Conference Room of IRRI Khush Hall in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines which was organized mainly for the FishBase,…