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Issue No. 6, May 2020 © Quantitative Aquatics, Inc.
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Kicking off the FishBase and SeaLifeBase anniversary celebrations
We are happy to announce that this year, we are celebrating the 30th and 15th anniversary of FishBase and SeaLifeBase, respectively. To commemorate this event, the first of a year-long digital campaign to celebrate our milestones is being launched here. Be with us as we share about the origins of FishBase, the people behind it, and how it has become to be the successful and widely-used version it is now. Watch the 'FishBase Story' animated video. [More]
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Rainer Froese wins Ocean Awards in Science
The Ocean Awards, a joint effort between Blue Marine Foundation and BOAT International, is now on its fifth year and continues to honor and recognize people and organizations working tirelessly to address the crisis in our oceans and improve its future.
Among the 2020 winners, Dr. Rainer Froese (GEOMAR) topped the Science Award for creating the successful online fish encyclopedia, FishBase, and leading the development of three revolutionary computer-intensive methods and software for assessing stocks of data-poor fisheries. [More]
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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. [More]
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Statement on COVID-19 outbreak
While we are all watchful on the COVID-19 outbreak, we would like to inform you that FishBase and SeaLifeBase encoding and related service activities including AquaMaps are continuing through work from home arrangements of the team in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. [More]
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