A week before Brussels’ Ocean Week and a few months before the UN Ocean Conference in Nice, a group of...

Experts Call for More Realistic Stock Assessments The state of fish stocks in the world’s oceans is worse than previously...

A recent paper authored by the Sea Around Us’ PI, Dr. Daniel Pauly, research assistant, Elaine Chu, and Dr. Johannes Müller...

We’re looking for 5 dynamic Research Assistants to join our expanding team! Position ID: Research Assistant Hours: Full-time project-based Location:...

Before Dr. Daniel Pauly, now the principal investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia, became a...

A year since Dr. Daniel Pauly received a copy of the book “Eponym Dictionary of Fishes,” this resource has been...

The 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium, themed “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” will be hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2-3 September...

MEDiverSEAty offers 10 PhD positions under Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie MEDiverSEAty is a Doctoral Network investigating human dimensions of Mediterranean...

In a recent paper in the journal Fishes, researchers at the University of British Columbia’s Sea Around Us initiative gathered additional evidence supporting the idea...

Mini-symposium at Leiden University (hybrid):📢 Title: A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)📅 Date: Wednesday – 27 March...

On the 22nd of February 2023, a delightful presence graced the halls of the Q-quatics office in the Philippines as...

Belizean fishers’ experience in the water confirms the declining trends in fishery catches – and, therefore, in fish populations –...

Sharks have persisted as powerful ocean predators for more than 400 million years. They survived five mass extinctions, diversifying into...

By Rainer Froese I thought the background story of our recent publication ‘New developments in the analysis of catch time...

by Daniel Pauly “The Tactics and Strategy of Growth in Fishes” is a 1974 paper by Thomas Derrick Iles, a...

The physical relief that temperate fish like cod and Atlantic herring experience after they  allows them to breathe in more oxygen...

A recent update introduced to the CMSY methodology used for assessing the status of fish stocks has proven to be more...

Earlier this year, we announced an exciting development on AquaMaps, unveiling the groundbreaking workflow named AquaX. AquaX stands as a...

Addressing data gaps and increasing research efforts on non-fish marine organisms are crucially needed to gain a deeper scientific understanding...

In the context of corporate branding and marketing, ‘logo’ pertains to the visual symbol or emblem that represents a company...

By Daniel Pauly At the last annual meeting of the FishBase Consortium, held 5-7 September 2023 in Tervuren, Belgium, it...

Position ID Research Assistant Hours Full-time Project-based Location Los Baños, Laguna Salary Commensurate with required qualifications Roles and Responsibilities Quantitative...

Position ID: Graphic Artist AssistantHours: Full-time, Project-basedSalary: Commensurate with required qualifications Roles and Responsibilities  Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. seeks a Graphic...

Position ID: Software Engineer 1 Hours: Full-time Location: Los Baños, Laguna, Phils. Salary: Commensurate with required qualifications Key Roles and...

The world’s waterbodies are filled with predatory fish feeding on other animals from zooplankton to squid and other fish, while...

FishBase (www.fishbase.org) is the largest global information system on fishes. It provides encyclopedic information on all described fishes and includes...

In over 30 years of continuous operation and development, FishBase is now the largest, most extensively accessed and one of...

Climate change-induced droughts and fish kills affect larger fish more severely than smaller individuals, according to new research. In a...

Thirty years and numerous upgrades since inception, FishBase is now the largest and most widely accessed global online information system...

World Oceans Day serves as a unifying occasion for individuals from all across the globe to gather and celebrate the...

Every year, on June 8th, people around the world come together to celebrate World Oceans Day. It is a poignant...

In a five-day workshop organized by the EcoScope project at the Fisheries Research Institute (FRI) in Kavala, Greece from May...

Contrary to what is stated in biology textbooks, the growth of fish doesn’t slow down when and because they start...

Climate change will bring about significant distributional reorganization of marine life with a net range loss of core habitat for...

An oil spill is a catastrophic event where large quantities of petroleum or crude oil are unintentionally released into the...

  Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. is a Philippine non-profit, non-stock organization, a leader in global aquatic information systems committed to scientific...

The fossil fish ‘Dunkleosteus terrelli’, a predatory fish that terrorized the seas some 370 million years ago, and reputed for...

The EcoScope Summer School 2023 titled ‘Oceanography & Fisheries Within The Ecosystem’, a free-to-attend training programme that will focus on...

One of the new members of the Q-quatics Team, Roesyvette ‘Roesy’ Hernandez, is a recipient of the “Accelerating Growth to...

Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for their rigorous scientific work to...

“Can you help us?”–A simple request from FishBase pioneer Dr. Daniel Pauly to UBC Researcher Dr. Gabriel Reygondeau, led to...

What is the difference between marine protected areas that actually work and paper parks? With the premise in mind, the...

  The FishBase Guide app and Fish Sound Quiz received lots of attention at the ‘love your ocean’ initiative of...

  Participating to present the “Role and impact of China on world fisheries and aquaculture”, a report commissioned by the...

This new publication “Global-scale parameters for ecological models” in Scientific Data of Nature.com pertains to the collection of environmental data...

Nearly two-thirds of coral reef shark and ray species worldwide are threatened with extinction, a new study in Nature Communications...

.. this unassuming website is the gateway to one of the most-cited resources in the last two centuries of modern...

  In a new publication, ichthyologists from Taiwan and the Philippines, described a new species of bandfish, Owstonia aurora Liao,...

An annual list of marine fish and bivalves that serves as a guide to German consumers on what they can...

Trends in global aquaculture growth rates reveal that the 101 million tonnes of farmed fish intergovernmental bodies expect countries to...

Marine scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für...

By Daniel Pauly In early September 2022, I found myself on the island of Penang, Malaysia, where WorldFish, an international...

In the new publication “A functional vulnerability framework for biodiversity conservation”, published in Nature Communications on the 1st of September 2022,...

FishBase – SeaLifeBase Annual Symposium5-6 September 2022 | WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia   This year’s FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium, a hybrid virtual and...

Q-quatics’ partner, the Sea Around Us, has released a suite of free video tutorials for data users interested in learning...

A crucial globally agreed framework to protect the world’s oceans and fisheries is on course to fail, according to a...

The AquaMaps Team of FishBase –Kristin Kaschner (Albert-Ludwigs University), Cristina Garilao (GEOMAR) and  Kathleen Kesner-Reyes (Q-quatics), provided present and future...

A momentous occasion presenting the biography of Dr Daniel Pauly, co-creator of FishBase and the man behind the brilliant concepts...

For World Oceans Day 2002, Dr. Maria Lourdes Palomares, ‘Deng’ to her colleagues, family and friends, Board Member of Q-quatics...

Co-creator and editor of FishBase Dr Rainer Froese, known and recognized for his advance and computer-intensive stock assessment method CMSY,...

  Position 1: Research Assistant 1Hours: Full-time Project-basedLocation: Los Baños, LagunaSalary: Commensurate with required qualifications Roles and Responsibilities Quantitative Aquatics,...

Under the premise of finding out how much fish is left in our oceans since 1950, when industrial fishing operations...

 The FishBase Guide, an app which allows users to check what fish species are available in their country of location...

Global fisheries makes an important contribution to the health and nutrition of millions of people. Unfortunately, in many cases, this...

The four-day World Fish Congress 2021 held late September in Adelaide, Australia had over 800 presentations, including the one by...

The project addresses ecosystem degradation and anthropogenic negative impact on fisheries in European seas. It aims to help restore the...

Two years after the release of Daniel Pauly: Un Océan de Combats –biography of FishBase co-creator and the Sea Around Us principal...

The always buzzing Paris – which did it best to exhibit its usual accelerated rhythm even in pandemic times -,...

Created in the year 2000, the FishBase Consortium’s mandate is to support the growth, sustainability and public accessibility of FishBase....

Rodolfo Reyes Jr., aka Rudy, joined FishBase in 1993 after working on a series of coral reef fisheries projects at...

Results of using CMSY, advanced yet easy to use fish stock assessment model developed at GEOMAR by Froese et al.,...

Luisa Abucay, also known as Isay, is a biologist with a master’s degree in food science who started working at...

A research study on the effects of climate change on recreational fisheries since 2019 where AquaMaps contributed modelled species distribution...

Rachel ‘Aque’ Atanacio joined FishBase in 1995 when the project needed a graphic designer and her other contract at the...

When Ma. Josephine Barile, aka Skit, joined FishBase back in 1998, she knew very little about the programming software being...

The Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle (MNHN), in partnership with the Société Française d’Ichtyologie (SFI), the Union des Conservateurs d’Aquariums de France, and the Aquarium tropical de...

A treasure trove of vital nutritional data about fish species from all around the world is being made freely available...

Cristina Garilao, a.k.a. Nina, is originally from Manila but has been living in Kiel for nearly 13 years now. Her...

Kathleen Kesner-Reyes has a background in anthropology, but she has dedicated most of her professional life to working on marine...

When Armi Torres joined FishBase at age 25, she couldn’t have predicted the turns her career as a marine biologist...

As of April 8, 2021, users accessing www.fishbase.org will be able to download BRUVS data when doing searches by species,...

The “CMSY++ User guide and Code” of Froese et al. (Rainer Froese, Nazli Demirel, Gianpaolo Coro and Henning Winker) has been...

Groundbreaking global study is the first to map ocean areas that, if strongly protected, would help solve climate, food and...

Patricia Yap has been with SeaLifeBase since its inception in 2005. Before joining the initial three-people team, while she was...

Emily Capuli says that when she started working for FishBase three decades ago, her hair was darker and longer. She may...

Susan Luna, also known as Tuttay, has been with FishBase even before the project was born. Back in 1989, she...

A new paper co-authored by Dr Rainer Froese (Senior Scientist at GEOMAR and Co-founder of FishBase), “Assessment of exploited fish...

The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of FishBase and 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, two online global biodiversity information systems that,...

In the new paper published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science, “MSY needs no epitaph –but it was abused” authored...

The Sea Around Us Principal Investigator and FishBase co-creator Dr.  has recently been awarded with the Beverton Medal for 2021 by the Fisheries Society...

To cap the year 2020, we would like to acknowledge and send our heartfelt appreciation to all the sponsors and...

“Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction“, a Marine Policy paper Q-quatics collaborated...

The latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was published recently and contains 128,918 species of which more than 35,500 species, comprising...

Who supports FishBase and SeaLifeBase? Maintaining big data projects takes a lot of people to conduct research, populate databases, verify...

On the fifth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Nicolas Bailly tells the story of how he took...

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...

This year, Dr Daniel Pauly is one of the faculty members of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at...

On the fourth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Cornelia Nauen (President of Mundus Maris) shares the other...

The Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries of the University of British Columbia in Canada recently published a report, “Assessments...

On the third episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr. Deng Palomares (Science Director of Q-quatics and SeaLifeBase Project Coordinator)...

With the ongoing situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, it was decided among members that the 21st FishBase Consortium...

On the second episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Daniel Pauly talks about some of the rewards and...

As part of a year-long campaign aimed at celebrating the 30th anniversary of FishBase and the 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase,...

FishBase was born and SeaLifeBase . The processes and efforts behind the creation of these two databases have been complex...

The year 2020 marks the and the 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, two online global biodiversity information systems that, together, provide...

“The deep ocean is warming slower than the surface but dramatic changes are ahead,” according to Mr. Isaac Brito-Morales (University of...

The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of FishBase and 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, two online global biodiversity information systems that,...

Here’s good news amidst the COVID-19 crisis, just what everyone needs to hear right now. Dr. Rainer Froese has been...

By Daniel Pauly  The public at large and scientists who are not taxonomists share a view of taxonomists as hard to...

A message to our partners and clients on COVID-19. #workfromhome #COVID19 #staysafe #quarantinePh Continue reading

ANNOUNCEMENT: Given our current circumstances during this quarantine period brought about by COVID-19, the data cut-off for mirror updates of...

It’s with pleasure and great pride to announce that Dr. Rainer Froese, one of the brilliant founders of FishBase and lead author...

It’s with great pride that we congratulate one of the esteemed founders of FishBase, founder and Principal Investigator of the Sea...

A recent study led by Dr. Amanda Hay (Australian Museum Research Institute) and participated by Daniel Pauly (Principal Investigator of Sea Around Us),...

To share his expertise and at the same time address the queries sent to the IT team by the rest of...

On the 5th of March 2020, Jeremy Jansalin, Research Assistant at Q-quatics shared some practical tips to his colleagues in...

On 20 February 2020, Ms. Fayte Sicnawa wholeheartedly shared her MSc special problem with her colleagues a day before her...

Dr. Armi Torres (Post Doc) participated in the Philippine Aquatic Red List Committee’s (PARLC) Freshwater Bony Fishes Subcommittee planning-workshop and...

Big congratulations to Qq Board of Trustees’ Vice Chair Dr. William Cheung, awardee of a 2019 UBC Killam Research Fellowship...

It was a dynamic and productive start of 2020 for Q-quatics! To start the year on the right footing, a...

The Q-quatics’ search process for four (4) positions: three (3) Research Assistants and one (1) Software Engineer has began. Qualifications...

The 9-day recreational fair “boot 2020” in Duesseldorf (Germany), a unique joint initiative for ocean and water protection, recently transpired...

A meeting between IRRI and Q-quatics was held on 15 January 2020 from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at the...

The differences in traits causing (and resulting from) indeterminate growth continues to confuse colleagues who are used to work with...

Breaking news to add to the joys of the holiday season, Dr. Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares (Qq Science Director) has...

A newly developed method for assessing how abundant fish populations are and how fishing is affecting them revealed that several...

Due to the growing number of inquiries on citations received by Q-quatics Librarian, Lyra Joyce Banasihan, a seminar on the...

Story-telling time for Q-quatics Communication Officer Joann Glorioso on how FishBase dove into the world of social media, her experiences...

The 17th Annual FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium was recently held at the Indian Ocean Marine Research Centre (IOMRC) of the...

To foster wellness and fitness in the workplace, Q-quatics conducted an in-house seminar on “Desk-friendly Exercises” on the 29th of...

On the 15th of August 2019, Ms. Emily Capuli, Thematic Group Leader for Taxonomy in Q-quatics, gave a seminar-presentation on...

Dr. Roger Pullin (former ICLARM Program Leader – Inland Aquatic Resources Systems), now Founding Director of the Irish Sea Centre)...

Branding expert Ms. Giulia Bottoni led the Q-quatics staff in the development of the Qq corporate identity through graphics design...

Dr. Todd Miller, Recruitment, Energetics and Coastal Assessment Program Manager at NOAA Fisheries and lead of IsotopeBase, a global database...

An ad hoc group composed of Skit Barile, Kathy Reyes, Jenks Espedido, Gelli Parducho and Tuttay Luna together with Deng...

Dr. Roger Pullin, former ICLARM Program Leader of the FishBase project, now Founding Director of the Irish Sea Centre met...

As a marine science student at Pearson College in Canada, 17-year-old Nadia Vaillancourt was looking for a marine conservation-related job to...

Ma. Josephine France ‘Skit’ R. Barile has been selected as the new Thematic Group Leader for IT effective April 4th,...

It is with great pride and honor that we announce the prestigious award given to two of our very own,...

To impart knowledge and skills on image analysis in Baited Remote Underwater Videos (BRUVs) among Q-quatics staff, Mr. Rodolfo ‘Rudy’...

Un Océan de Combats, the book which summarizes the awe-inspiring and novelesque life of  FishBase Founder Daniel Pauly, has recently been...

For the month of June, Jeremy Jansalin(Qq Research Officer) in partnership with Geezle Painaga (Qq Administrative Assistant), conducted a mini-seminar for...

The objectives of this activity are for the members of the Qq Species ID Team (Lead: Rudy Reyes, Members: Isay...

On 30 May 2019, Ms. Jessika Woroniak, Research Assistant at Sea Around Us, gave a short presentation on the Catch Maximum Sustainable Yield...

A teaching seminar was given by  Ms. Josephine ‘Skit’ Barile (head of the Information Technology Group) to address inquiries and help...

A summary of the results of the AMSY workshop held at GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany on 23-25 April 2019, as reported by...

Prolific discussions ensued from this week’s scheduled talk [April 23, 2019] by Ms. Vina Angelica Parducho on “The Application of the...

As an effort to further enhance capacity building through knowledge sharing in the Q-quatics workplace, the Thursday mini-seminar series was...

Position ID: TGL-Taxonomy Qq Hours: Full-time Location: Los Baños, Laguna Salary: Commensurate with required qualifications Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. is a non-stock, non-profit, non-governmental organization established...

To better internalize their observations on fish swimming behavior, and with the end goal of developing a “pictoguide” of depth...

Science writer Erik Stokstad recently interviewed Dr. Rainer Froese (GEOMAR) about the findings of a newly published paper which studied the...

Vision Q-quatics is a non-profit organization maintaining and developing a network of information systems that provide biodiversity and fisheries data...

Position Title: Research Assistant 1 Position ID: ResAsst 1 Qq Hours:     Full-time Project Location:  Los Baños, Laguna, Phils. (local...

Q-quatics revved up the year with a mini-symposium, “Q-quatics 2019: Road ahead”, which gathered local and international marine and freshwater...

Collaborators from The University of Hong Kong – HKU – 香港大學 (Swire Institute Of Marine Science), Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Sea...

The workshop on “New Methods for Stock Assessment: LBB and CMSY/BSM” was held on 28 November 2018 at Q-quatics HQ...

To commence the “Underwater Video Image Analysis” project with Q-quatics , partners from the University of Western Australia (namely, Dr. Jessica...

FishBase team members, Dr. Armi Torres and Mr. Rodolfo Reyes Jr., were invited as resource speakers to the “National Training on Freshwater...

Babali, N., Kacher, M., Belhabib, D., Louanchi, F. and D. Pauly. 2018. Recreational fisheries economics between illusion and reality: The...

Big congratulations to Q-quatics Science Director, the SeaLifeBase Project Coordinator, and Sea Around Us Project Manager, Dr. Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares who recently received an...

Vina “Gelli” Parducho, Q-quatics research staff and SeaLifeBase team member, traveled all the way from the Philippines to GEOMAR [Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research] in Kiel,...

Representatives and guests of the FishBase Consortium from 12 international scientific institutions met at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean...

A team of scientists and researchers (Rabosky et al.) recently analyzed the evolutionary relationships among >30,000 fish species and arrived...

What will it take to save underwater life forms and the millions who rely on them to survive? Five Filipino...

We have just been informed that a major payment to support the FishBase encoders for 2018 will not be made....

During a consultation meeting with the SMARTSeas PH staff on 18 May 2018, various options to bring the accessibility and utilization...

Dr. Charles Blend is one of the very faithful sponsors of FishBase. Since 2011, ‘Chuck’, as he prefers to be...

Breaking News! Together, FishNet2 and FishBase comprise the new Global Thematic Fish OBIS Node! The new partnership delegates the provision of specimen-vouchered...

Position ID                 ResAsst 1 SLB Hours                            Full-time Regular Location      ...

Another prestigious celebration for Q-quatics Board of Trustee member, Dr. Wai Lung “William” Cheung (University of British Columbia), this year’s...

To start the year on the right footing, so to speak, the Q-quatics team (FishBase, SeaLifeBase, Sea Around Us, AquaMaps and ...

Under the auspices of  Oceana Philippines and Sea Around Us, fisheries experts led by one of the world’s top fisheries scientists Dr. Daniel Pauly (Principal...

A new regional fish atlas was just recently published by the EGREE Foundation. The atlas entitled “Finfish Atlas of the EGREE Region” presents accounts...

In collaboration with Science Journal for Kids, Dr. Rainer Froese (Senior Scientist at GEOMAR and FishBase Consottium Coordinator) translated one of his recent...

The Swedish Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet) in Stockholm, one of the ten (10) international institutes and organizations comprising the FishBase...

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...

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...

Since 2001, FishBase has been supported by an international consortium that includes the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren as a founding...

Reef Life Survey becomes one of the external sources of species information in FishBase through deep linking. RLS can be found...

August marks the official kick off of the “Ocean Song Contest“, OSC for short, an amusing online game about songs of...

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...

The “Global marine fisheries discards: A synthesis of reconstructed data” provided estimates for discards in all major fisheries in the...

Just in time for Shark Week, an annual celebration devoted to shark conservation and popularized by Discovery Channel, UBC climate change...

FishBase now has species-to-species links to MitoFish, the Mitochondrial Genome Database of Fish, developed by the University of Tokyo and led...

Pristine our oceans might never be But huge promise our actions speak If there’s courage to conserve them all Neither...

The Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources – National Fisheries Development and Research Institute (BFAR-NFRDI), in coordination with FishBase...

Following the first Q-quatics board meeting on 16 January 2017 was a seminar by Dr. William Cheung on, “Applying macroecology to...