5-6 October 2017, Kochi, Kerala, India —GIZ (Indo-German Biodiversity Programme) and Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), in coordination with Q-quatics, organized and conducted the training-workshop on “The use of CMSY tool for assessment of Indian fish stocks in a data-poor environment”. During the course, experts introduced and trained Indian fisheries scientists on…
Hats off and big congratulations to Q-quatics Board of Trustees Vice Chair Dr. Wiliam Cheung, Associate Professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, and the Director of Science at the Nippon Foundation – UBC Nereus Program, latest recipient of the “Prix d’ Excellence” award from the International Council for the Exploration of the…
Since 2001, FishBase has been supported by an international consortium that includes the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren as a founding member. After two (2) successful meetings in 2007 and 2012, the Museum again hosted the 2017 steering committee meeting from 4 to 8 September, and organized an open symposium focused on…
Reef Life Survey becomes one of the external sources of species information in FishBase through deep linking. RLS can be found under “Internet Sources” of each species summary page in FishBase, e.g. Labroides dimidiatus (Valenciennes, 1839). Meanwhile, links to FishBase are now up on the Reef Life Survey species pages too, e.g. see bottom left,…
August marks the official kick off of the “Ocean Song Contest“, OSC for short, an amusing online game about songs of and for the oceans, originally conceptualized and designed by Dr. Rainer Froese (Senior Scientist at GEOMAR and long-term FishBase Coordinator) earlier this year to make ocean conservation campaigns and donating more fun…
On July 6th of 2017, the Fisheries Society of the British Isles (FSBI), officially awarded the Le Cren Medal to the FishBase Consortium and the entire FishBase Team, in honor of their valuable and lifelong contribution to fisheries science: “the world’s largest information portal of marine organisms”. The FSBI is an international learned society that promotes the interests…
The “Global marine fisheries discards: A synthesis of reconstructed data” provided estimates for discards in all major fisheries in the world, as part of the global marine fisheries catch reconstruction project conducted by the Sea Around Us . It is co-authored by Maria Lourdes Palomares (PhD), Q-quatics board member, and…
Just in time for Shark Week, an annual celebration devoted to shark conservation and popularized by Discovery Channel, UBC climate change expert and Q-quatics Boart of Trustees Vice Chair Dr. Wiliam Cheung made a jaw-dropping revelation, that great white sharks are about to make a splash off British Columbia waters! According to Dr. Cheung…
FishBase now has species-to-species links to MitoFish, the Mitochondrial Genome Database of Fish, developed by the University of Tokyo and led by Dr. Wataru Iwasaki. These links make it easy for MitoFish users to check the image, distribution and other relevant information currently available for each species. The availability of data from FishBase…
Pristine our oceans might never be But huge promise our actions speak If there’s courage to conserve them all Neither selfish agendas nor pointing brawls What if we listen, act on one call? Profound changes there are Pollution, acidification, extinction Bleaching, spillage, suffocation But future ain’t black and white…