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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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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