Rainer Froese nominated in Ocean Awards 2020

It’s with pleasure and great pride to announce that Dr. Rainer Froese, one of the brilliant founders of FishBase and lead author of advanced and novel stock assessment methods (CMSY/BSM, LBB and AMSY) has recently been nominated as finalist for the ‘Science Award‘ category under the ‘Ocean Awards 2020‘ which recognizes the individual (Rainer Froese) or…

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Daniel Pauly receives ‘Frontier of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology Award’

It’s with great pride that we congratulate one of the esteemed founders of FishBase, founder and Principal Investigator of the Sea Around Us initiative of the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at University of British Columbia (UBC) and University Killam Professor at UBC, Dr. Daniel Pauly, for receiving another prestigious accolade, the…

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New study by Hay et al. provides LWR estimates of museum fish specimens to FishBase

A recent study led by Dr. Amanda Hay (Australian Museum Research Institute) and participated by Daniel Pauly (Principal Investigator of Sea Around Us), Nicolas Bailly (Q-quatics/Beaty Biodiversity Museum), Weiwei Xian (Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Cui Liang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) proposed a rationale and strategy for the use of museum specimens in estimating the…

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