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…
Before Dr. Daniel Pauly, now the principal investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia, became a doctoral student, he spent two years doing fisheries work in Indonesia. Having done his academic studies in Germany, he was surprised to discover a near absence of information on the growth…
The 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium, themed “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” will be hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2-3 September 2024, at the KEDEA Building of the Aristotle University Campus. Day 1️⃣: Advances in the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)Contributions test the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory’s applicability to new topics or taxa,…
Climate change-induced droughts and fish kills affect larger fish more severely than smaller individuals, according to new research. In a paper published in Environmental Biology of Fishes, researchers from Leiden University, Sportvisserij Zuidwest Nederland and the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia compared evidence from drought-induced…
Climate change will bring about significant distributional reorganization of marine life with a net range loss of core habitat for the majority of marine species, a new study led by researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven (AWI) and co-authored by the AquaMaps…
Daniel Pauly and Rashid Sumaila are awarded the 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement for their rigorous scientific work to end overfishing and restore equity to our oceans. LOS ANGELES, CA, FEB 22, 2023: The 2023 Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, often described as the ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’,…
Nearly two-thirds of coral reef shark and ray species worldwide are threatened with extinction, a new study in Nature Communications co-authored by the Sea Around Us’ Project Manager and Q-quatics’ Science Director Dr. Maria ‘Deng’ Palomares shows. The results suggest that the extinction risk of coral reef sharks and rays,…
Marine scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (Germany), the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN, Germany) and the Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy teamed up to test and predict how different marine life in the…
FishBase – SeaLifeBase Annual Symposium5-6 September 2022 | WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia This year’s FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium, a hybrid virtual and in-person event, was an opportunity to illustrate the different uses of FishBase and SeaLifeBase in the fields of ecology, biogeography, fisheries, taxonomy and aquariology. An impressive line-up of speakers were…
The AquaMaps Team of FishBase –Kristin Kaschner (Albert-Ludwigs University), Cristina Garilao (GEOMAR) and Kathleen Kesner-Reyes (Q-quatics), provided present and future biodiversity data for over 2,000 benthic and pelagic species inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea, for the study “4D marine conservation networks: Combining 3D prioritization of present and future biodiversity with climatic…
