FishBase and SeaLifeBase by the numbers

FishBase was born and SeaLifeBase . The processes and efforts behind the creation of these two databases have been complex and enormous, involving dozens of staff members and thousands of collaborators. But how much information have these global biodiversity information systems gathered in the past few decades, really? This video,…

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Kicking off the FishBase and SeaLifeBase anniversary celebrations

The year 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of FishBase and 15th anniversary of SeaLifeBase, two online global biodiversity information systems that, together, provide biological and ecological information on more than 110,000 marine species. To celebrate these milestones in the times of physical distancing, we have launched a year-long digital campaign that…

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Jack Randall (1924 – 2020): a friend of FishBase

By Daniel Pauly  The public at large and scientists who are not taxonomists share a view of taxonomists as hard to connect with and sometimes remote; this may apply to some of them, but as with everything, there are exceptions. One of these exceptions was Jack Randall. John Ernest Randall was…

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