On the fifth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Nicolas Bailly tells the story of how he took part in the creation of SeaLifeBase by taking an empty shell of the FishBase database structure and populating it with information from the Catalogue of Life (CoL). He also explains how SeaLifeBase has evolved…
FishBase co-creator and the Sea Around Us Principal Investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, continues to be among the top 0.01% of the world’s scientists based on the impact of his publications. This is according to a study published last year in PLoS Biology and updated in 2020, whose authors created a publicly available database of the…
This year, Dr Daniel Pauly is one of the faculty members of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia who join UBC’s Quarter Century Club. Congratulations, Dr Pauly! 🎉 The Quarter Century Club/25 Year Club was established in 1996 to honor faculty and staff of…
On the fourth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Cornelia Nauen (President of Mundus Maris) shares the other side of the FishBase story, that is, the effort that had to be done to gather some seed money and bring the project to life. After retelling what she had to do…
The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries of the University of British Columbia in Canada recently published a report, “Assessments of Marine Fisheries Resources in West Africa with Emphasis on Small Pelagics” based on the study conducted by the Sea Around Us, the MAVA Foundation and the Commission Sous-Régionale des…
On the third episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr. Deng Palomares (Science Director of Q-quatics and SeaLifeBase Project Coordinator) talks about how SeaLifeBase came to be. After recounting how the project was born as homage to John Munro, who once directed the Resource Development and Management Program at the International…
With the ongoing situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided among members that the 21st FishBase Consortium Annual Meeting would be best conducted online for this year. The 5-day teleconference meeting among members and partners transpired last week, from 7 to11 September 2020, and was hosted by…
On the second episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Daniel Pauly talks about some of the rewards and challenges in creating FishBase and turning it into a leading biodiversity information system. The Sea Around Us principal investigator also shares interesting and funny anecdotes related to both the early…
As part of a year-long campaign aimed at celebrating the 30th anniversary of FishBase and the 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, a limited series of audio interviews with the brains and muscles behind both databases was launched. The first episode of this audio series features Dr. Rainer Froese, senior scientist at…
FishBase was born 30 years ago and SeaLifeBase 15 years ago. The processes and efforts behind the creation of these two databases have been complex and enormous, involving dozens of staff members and thousands of collaborators. But how much information have these global biodiversity information systems gathered in the past…
