This new publication “Global-scale parameters for ecological models” in Scientific Data of Nature.com pertains to the collection of environmental data produced as a result of a collaboration between the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy and Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. (Q-quatics) for the EcoScope Project, specifically under Work Package 4: Climate…
Nearly two-thirds of coral reef shark and ray species worldwide are threatened with extinction, a new study in Nature Communications co-authored by the Sea Around Us’ Project Manager and Q-quatics’ Science Director Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares shows. The results suggest that the extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays,…
.. this unassuming website is the gateway to one of the most-cited resources in the last two centuries of modern science – a database on fish. ‘Breathing new life into FishBase and SeaLifeBase’, blog by Neil Palmer (WorldFish), gives an overview of the FishBase Project as a powerful and widely-used…
In a new publication, ichthyologists from Taiwan and the Philippines, described a new species of bandfish, Owstonia aurora Liao, Reyes & Shao 2022. The specimens used to describe the species were collected east of Aurora province in Northern Luzon at depths of over 300 meters during the Aurora 2007…
An annual list of marine fish and bivalves that serves as a guide to German consumers on what they can purchase and eat with a clear conscience –those currently with large and healthy population sizes and are fished sustainably, or in short, the ‘good fish‘, was recently published as a…
Trends in global aquaculture growth rates reveal that the 101 million tonnes of farmed fish intergovernmental bodies expect countries to produce by 2030 may be unrealistic. A new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia presents evidence suggesting that global aquaculture growth rates peaked at 14.1 per cent in…
Marine scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN, Germany) and the Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy teamed up to test and predict how different marine life in the…
By Daniel Pauly In early September 2022, I found myself on the island of Penang, Malaysia, where WorldFish, an international research center focusing on tropical fish culture, is headquartered. WorldFish is the new name of the International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), previously located in Manila, the Philippines,…
In the new publication “A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation”, published in Nature Communications on the 1st of September 2022, Q-quatics provided occurrence records for over 4,000 marine species that the AquaMaps team has verified. These are made up of georeferenced occurrence data, primarily from GBIF and OBIS, that have…
FishBase – SeaLifeBase Annual Symposium5-6 September 2022 | WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia This year’s FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium, a hybrid virtual and in-person event, was an opportunity to illustrate the different uses of FishBase and SeaLifeBase in the fields of ecology, biogeography, fisheries, taxonomy and aquariology. An impressive line-up of speakers were…