FishBase helped shrink a fossil fish

The fossil fish ‘Dunkleosteus terrelli’, a predatory fish that terrorized the seas some 370 million years ago, and reputed for their alleged enormous size, were much smaller than originally presumed,  new study in Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute reveals. Previous estimate of length for this fish ranged from 5 to 10…

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Employee Spotlight: Roesyvette Hernandez, pilot recipient of UPLB’s AGORA Research Grant

One of the new members of the Q-quatics Team, Roesyvette ‘Roesy’ Hernandez, is a recipient of the “Accelerating Growth to One Research and Extension in Action (AGORA) Research Grant” bestowed by her alma mater the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) through the Office of the Vice Chancellor for…

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‘Nobel Prize for Environment’ awarded to Ocean Whistleblowers calling for high seas fishing ban

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’,…

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Daniel Pauly at IMPAC 5 –De facto MPAs vs Paper parks

What is the difference between marine protected areas that actually work and paper parks? With the premise in mind, the Sea Around Us principal investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly, offered a keynote presentation at the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC5), held in Vancouver from February 3 to February 9,…

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Daniel Pauly and Deng Palomares present to the EU Parliament’s Committee of Fisheries

  Participating to present the “Role and impact of China on world fisheries and aquaculture”, a report commissioned by the European Parliament’s Committee of Fisheries, Dr Daniel Pauly (FishBase pioneer and the Sea Around Us‘ Principal Investigator) and Dr Ma. Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares (Sea Around Us’ Program Manager and the…

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The 23rd FishBase-SeaLifeBase Symposium: Various uses of these global information platforms and their contributions to aquatic food systems

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…

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The Ocean’s Whistleblower: A Conversation with Daniel Pauly

A momentous occasion presenting the biography of Dr Daniel Pauly, co-creator of FishBase and the man behind the brilliant concepts ‘shifting baselines’ and ‘fishing down marine food webs’, is taking place on June 9, 2022 at 6:00 PM  to 8:00 PM PST –both online (via Zoom) and onsite at the…

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Daniel Pauly presents work with Q-quatics on documenting and mapping the time series global expansion of industrial fishing at the WFC2021

The four-day World Fish Congress 2021 held late September in Adelaide, Australia had over 800 presentations, including the one by Dr. Daniel Pauly, co-creator of FishBase and Principal Investigator of Sea Around Us. The WFC2021 was conducted in a hybrid format –with both in-person and online presentations and discussion forums,…

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FishBase and SeaLifeBase 2021 Anniversary Symposium – Magnifique!

The always buzzing Paris – which did it best to exhibit its usual accelerated rhythm even in pandemic times -, hosted on September 6-7, 2021, an equally dynamic FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium at the Grande Galerie de l’Évolution of the National Museum of Natural History. One presentation after the next,…

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Meet the members of the FishBase Consortium

Created in the year 2000, the FishBase Consortium’s mandate is to support the growth, sustainability and public accessibility of FishBase. Since 2005, it also oversees SeaLifeBase.

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