As of April 8, 2021, users accessing www.fishbase.org will be able to download BRUVS data when doing searches by species, family or country/island. In detail, users can now obtain all records of any species of interest in terms of where they were observed across the samples, how many and how…
Emily Capuli says that when she started working for FishBase three decades ago, her hair was darker and longer. She may look different now but her interest in documenting the fishes found globally has not changed a bit. She continues to do this by ‘fishing’ for new species and documenting taxonomic…
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 for more than 110,000 aquatic species of the world. As part of a year-long digital campaign aimed at celebrating the anniversaries of FishBase and SeaLifeBase in times of…
The Sea Around Us Principal Investigator and FishBase co-creator Dr. Daniel Pauly has recently been awarded with the Beverton Medal for 2021 by the Fisheries Society of the British Isles in recognition of his groundbreaking research and lifelong contribution to the study of fish and fisheries science. The Beverton Medal is FSBI’s most senior award…
To cap the year 2020, we would like to acknowledge and send our heartfelt appreciation to all the sponsors and pioneers of FishBase, SeaLifeBase and AquaMaps. It has been an extraordinary and extremely challenging year for everyone all over the world, but because of your unwavering support, our work continues…
“Data-driven approach for highlighting priority areas for protection in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction“, a Marine Policy paper Q-quatics collaborated on is now published online. For this particular work, the AquaMaps Project (Q-quatics) curated modelled data on the contemporary and future distribution under three Representative Concentration Pathway scenarios (RCP 2.6, 4.5…
The latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species was published recently and contains 128,918 species of which more than 35,500 species, comprising 28% of all assessed species, are threatened with extinction. Thirty-one (31) species are now declared Extinct. Almost half of these are endemic to Lake Lanao, the largest lake in…
Who supports FishBase and SeaLifeBase? Maintaining big data projects takes a lot of people to conduct research, populate databases, verify information, and make the data accessible. It also requires a lot of material and financial resources. Creating and keeping FishBase and SeaLifeBase accurate and updated is in part possible thanks…
On the fifth episode of the FishBase and SeaLifeBase Anniversary Podcast, Dr Nicolas Bailly tells the story of how he took part in the creation of SeaLifeBase by taking an empty shell of the FishBase database structure and populating it with information from the Catalogue of Life (CoL). He also explains how SeaLifeBase has evolved…
FishBase was born 30 years ago and SeaLifeBase 15 years ago. 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…
