The fossil fish ‘Dunkleosteus terrelli’, a predatory fish that terrorized the seas some 370 million years ago, and reputed for their alleged enormous size, were much smaller than originally presumed, new study in Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute reveals. Previous estimate of length for this fish ranged from 5 to 10…
The EcoScope Summer School 2023 titled ‘Oceanography & Fisheries Within The Ecosystem’, a free-to-attend training programme that will focus on encouraging scientific dialogues and providing an educational experience on the topics of oceanography and fisheries ecosystems, will be held on 25-29 September 2023 in Kavala, Greece. It’s organized by the…
One of the new members of the Q-quatics Team, Roesyvette ‘Roesy’ Hernandez, is a recipient of the “Accelerating Growth to One Research and Extension in Action (AGORA) Research Grant” bestowed by her alma mater the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for…
Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for their rigorous scientific work to end overfishing and restore equity to our oceans. LOS ANGELES, CA, FEB 22, 2023: The 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, often described as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’,…
“Can you help us?”–A simple request from FishBase pioneer Dr. Daniel Pauly to UBC Researcher Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau, led to a recent breakthrough for one of the cutting-edge databases of Q-quatics. AquaMaps is the global species distribution modelling component of FishBase and SeaLifeBase. It creates predictive maps of the natural…
What is the difference between marine protected areas that actually work and paper parks? With the premise in mind, the Sea Around Us principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, offered a keynote presentation at the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), held in Vancouver from February 3 to February 9,…
The FishBase Guide app and Fish Sound Quiz received lots of attention at the ‘love your ocean’ initiative of the International Boot Fair 2023 (January 21-29) in Düsseldorf, thanks to our long-term partner Mundus Maris for bringing these tools to German fingertips! Boot Düsseldorf is the world’s largest water…
Participating to present the “Role and impact of China on world fisheries and aquaculture”, a report commissioned by the European Parliament’s Committee of Fisheries, Dr Daniel Pauly (FishBase pioneer and the Sea Around Us‘ Principal Investigator) and Dr Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares (Sea Around Us’ Program Manager and the…
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,…
