The 4th Annual General Assembly meeting of the Ecocentric Management for Sustainable Fisheries and Healthy Marine Ecosystems (EcoScope) Project took place from Tuesday, November 5 to Thursday, November 7, 2024 at the Balearic Oceanographic Centre of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Forty-six (46) researchers from 17…
Taking a step to be more visible, ignite interest in its databases and guide people on how to leverage them for conservation efforts, Q-quatics participated in the Diving Resort Travel (DRT) Expo held at the SMX Convention Center in Manila, Philippines from September 6-8, 2024. The DRT Show is organized…
The 22nd FishBase and SeaLifeBase Symposium, themed “Fishes in Changing Ecosystems,” will be hosted in Thessaloniki, Greece on 2-3 September 2024, at the KEDEA Building of the Aristotle University Campus. Day 1️⃣: Advances in the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory (GOLT)Contributions test the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory’s applicability to new topics or taxa,…
Earlier this year, we announced an exciting development on AquaMaps, unveiling the groundbreaking workflow named AquaX. AquaX stands as a cutting-edge ensemble modeling framework that encompasses the next-generation AquaMaps, along with several other species distribution models and a brand-new website. Presenting the official AquaX logo. The representation of ‘Aqua’ in…
Addressing data gaps and increasing research efforts on non-fish marine organisms are crucially needed to gain a deeper scientific understanding and more effective management of the European seas, new research has found. In a new paper published in the journal ‘Frontiers in Marine Science’, an international team of researchers led…
In the context of corporate branding and marketing, ‘logo’ pertains to the visual symbol or emblem that represents a company or organization, serving as a unique and easily recognizable embodiment of the brand. They are typically designed to convey the company’s identity, values, and undertakings. For Q-quatics databases FishBase, SeaLifeBase,…
By Daniel Pauly At the last annual meeting of the FishBase Consortium, held 5-7 September 2023 in Tervuren, Belgium, it was decided that the next FishBase/SeaLifeBase Symposium, traditionally held before the FishBase Consortium meeting, to be held in early September 2024 in Thessaloniki, Greece, would last two days, with the…
Position ID Research Assistant Hours Full-time Project-based Location Los Baños, Laguna Salary Commensurate with required qualifications Roles and Responsibilities Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. seeks a Research Assistant with the following responsibilities: Search and compile references relevant to the project; Extract and encode marine and freshwater species data primarily on taxonomy, distribution,…
FishBase (www.fishbase.org) is the largest global information system on fishes. It provides encyclopedic information on all described fishes and includes many tools for scientists in a large array of ichthyological disciplines. With about 700,000 visits per month, it is the most successful database on any group of living organisms. SeaLifeBase…
Thirty years and numerous upgrades since inception, FishBase is now the largest and most widely accessed global online information system on fish, providing unrestricted and quick access to key information –morphology and physiology, names, genetics and aquaculture, trophic ecology, reproduction and life-history traits, population dynamics, fish as food, fish pictures,…