GEOMAR researchers identify systemic weaknesses in EU fisheries management and are calling for quotas to be set independently of national interests 22 May 2025/Kiel. Every year, total allowable catches (TACs) and fishing quotas are set across Europe through a multi-step process – and yet many fish stocks in EU waters…
United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), 9-13 June 2025, Nice, France–co-chaired by the governments of France and Costa Rica “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean” Together with several partners, Mundus maris is hosting a side event in the Green Zone, particularly in the space ‘Atoll participatif’…
In the heat of summer in central Greece, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki hosted the 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium. Titled “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” the two-day event started on September 2, 2024, with a full day dedicated to some of the overarching themes the Sea Around Us team is doing research on….
Continuous learning and professional growth are keys to staying at the forefront of marine and aquatic research. Recognizing the value of broadening perspectives, the Q-quatics Lecture Series was launched on January 2025 to provide staff with insights into global developments, innovative research, and emerging trends across various disciplines. This initiative…
SemantyFish aims to enhance the visibility, interoperability, and exploitability of FishBase by transforming it into a semantic web knowledge base. By leveraging semantic web technologies, the project will enable seamless data exchange, complex queries, and integration with global research infrastructures, advancing its role in open science and interdisciplinary research. SemantyFish…
By Daniel Pauly, Rainer Froese and Nicolas Bailly The Quantitative Aquatics and Sea Around Us teams lament the passing of W.N ‘Bill’ Eschmeyer (1939-2024), the founding editor and namesake of the Eschmeyer’s Catalog of Fishes (ECoF). Born in Knoxville, USA, Eschmeyer studied marine biology at the University of Michigan, following…
The 4th Annual General Assembly meeting of the Ecocentric Management for Sustainable Fisheries and Healthy Marine Ecosystems (EcoScope) Project took place from Tuesday, November 5 to Thursday, November 7, 2024 at the Balearic Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Forty-six (46) researchers from 17…
As climate change continues to warm and deoxygenate ocean water, the size of fish, aquatic molluscs and crustaceans is showing a concerning reduction pattern. This pattern manifests a life history in which the animals exposed to rising temperatures grow fast when they are young but mature at smaller sizes than before and their…
Taking a step to be more visible, ignite interest in its databases and guide people on how to leverage them for conservation efforts, Q-quatics participated in the Diving Resort Travel (DRT) Expo held at the SMX Convention Center in Manila, Philippines from September 6-8, 2024. The DRT Show is organized…
A week before Brussels’ Ocean Week and a few months before the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, a group of researchers published the results of an unprecedented scientific effort: they redefine the concept of ‘sustainable fishing’ and propose eleven ‘golden rules’ that radically challenge the flawed notion that currently prevails in fisheries…