A team of scientists and researchers (Rabosky et al.) recently analyzed the evolutionary relationships among >30,000 fish species and arrived at astonishing findings which lead to a conclusion that the rate of species formation was fastest at the highest latitudes and in the coldest ocean waters which have lower densities…
What will it take to save underwater life forms and the millions who rely on them to survive? Five Filipino experts working in marine-related fields in different parts of the world, to include Q-quatics Board Member and Science Director, Deng Palomares, enlightened CNN Philippines Life about what the government can…
We have just been informed that a major payment to support the FishBase encoders for 2018 will not be made. It comes at a time when use of FishBase produced a major scientific breakthrough (Rabosky et al., 2018) with far-reaching practical implications. This leaves us with a US$ 200,000 funding gap for…
During a consultation meeting with the SMARTSeas PH staff on 18 May 2018, various options to bring the accessibility and utilization of the SMARTSeas PH portal to the public and most importantly to the various agencies of the DENR – Biodiversity Management Bureau (BMB) to a new level, both for the benefit…
Dr. Charles Blend is one of the very faithful sponsors of FishBase. Since 2011, ‘Chuck’, as he prefers to be called, has been supporting our work by sponsoring his favorite fish, a very ugly deep-sea species, the Humpback anglerfish or Melanocetus johnsonii. According to Dr. Blend, FishBase is basically his ‘Fish Bible’. He…
Breaking News! Together, FishNet2 and FishBase comprise the new Global Thematic Fish OBIS Node! The new partnership delegates the provision of specimen-vouchered occurrences and data derived from specimens to FishNet2, while FishBase is tasked to provide occurrence data gathered from trawling surveys, ecological monitoring, field data sampling and more. FishBase (www.fishbase.org) is…
Position ID ResAsst 1 SLB Hours Full-time Regular Location Los Baños, Laguna Salary Commensurate with required qualifications Quantitative…
Another prestigious celebration for Q-quatics Board of Trustee member, Dr. Wai Lung “William” Cheung (University of British Columbia), this year’s winner of the Ehor Boyanowsky Academic of the Year Award given by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia (CUFA BC). Dr. Cheung is an Associate Professor at the…
A new regional fish atlas was just recently published by the EGREE Foundation. The atlas entitled “Finfish Atlas of the EGREE Region” presents accounts for over 600 fish species of the East Godavari Estuarine Ecosystem (EGREE) on the northeastern coast of India. In addition to the usual meristics and descriptions of morphology and coloration,…
In collaboration with Science Journal for Kids, Dr. Rainer Froese (Senior Scientist at GEOMAR and FishBase Consottium Coordinator) translated one of his recent papers, “Minimizing the impacts of fishing” (Froese et al., 2016) into a simplified and more visual instructional material fit for understanding of non-experts and suited for use in schools with questions and…