| 8/2004 |
Our 'length-Frequency Wizard' has been updated and now contains the B & H method for estimating total mortality and exploitation rates. |
Lates niloticus
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| 7/2004 |
Starting in July 2004 the 'Top 100' of most viewed species has been updated to collect views accross all FishBase servers. Thus, you can now quickly see that in July 2004 3,382 FishBase users looked at Atlantic cod; if you are selling cod fillets you should consider advertising on this page. |
Top 100
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| 7/2004 |
You can now match long lists of scientific names against FishBase and obtain corrections (see Tools section). |
Match names
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| 6/2004 |
Numerous analytical graphs have become available online, see Tools section. Start playing with questions such as "Are deep-sea fish dump or smart?" |
Brain size
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| 5/2004 |
FishBase 2004 with all data, photos, book, etc is now available on DVD for US$ or € 95 including shipping. |
Order FishBase
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| 5/2004 |
Trophic analysis of catch data is now available online. You can also upload your own data. |
Catch analysis
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| 4/2004 |
Several identification keys are available using the userfriendly Lucid-Phoenix interface. |
Groupers
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| 3/2004 |
We passed the '10 million hits per month' threshold. |
FishBase
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| 2/2004 |
FishBase was among the first major data contributors to GBIF, pushing their data holdings above the 10 million records mark. |
GBIF
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| 2/2004 |
We now show point maps by ecosystem. This gives you quick access to all geo-referenced collections that have been done in a given area. |
Laguna de Bay
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| 1/2004 |
All freshwater fishes were assigned to zoogeographic realms. These categories are now visible under 'Information by Ecosystem'. |
Australian
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| 9/2003 |
We now have a 'wizard' to help diagnose the most common fish dieases. |
Disease Wizard
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| 11/2003 |
The 'Hints' page has been updated and contains many example on how to make best use of FishBase such as including some of our pages or services within your own web page. |
Hints
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| 10/2003 |
FishBase is available in several languages. The labels and choice fields have been translated by experts. Free-text fields such as distribution and morphology are machine-translated and may look funny. |
FishBase in Chinese
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| 10/2003 |
A 'wizard' helps in creating a personal web page e.g. on the fishes in your aquarium or exhibit. |
MyFish
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| 08/2003 |
In August 2003 we crossed the '28,000 Fish Species' threshold, clearly overtaking the count of 24,618 species in Nelson (1994). |
FishBase
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| 07/2003 |
In our continuous effort to make FishBase more user-friendly we now show little symbols under the photo in the Species Summary page for species where we have videos or sound files. |
Herring
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| 06/2003 |
The FishBase Glossary has been expanded and now contains over 6,000 terms related to taxonomy, ichthyology, fisheries, fish products, oceanography, and related fields. |
FishBase
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| 06/2003 |
Thanks to contributions by a colleague, etymologies--explanations of the meaning of scientific names--are now available for Families and Genera. |
Scomber
Molidae
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| 05/2003 |
The Polish Journal ACTA ICHTHYOLOGICA ET PISCATORIA has added to their Guide to Authors that scientific names used in manuscripts have to follow FishBase; they are looking forward to receive manuscripts about FishBase-related topics; they make published articles available online for free and invite FishBase to link to them. |
ACTA ICHTHYOLOGICA ET PISCATORIA
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| 02/2003 |
Use of FishBase had outpaced the performance of our main server and access had become painfully slow. We installed a load-balancing system that now distributes requests among several servers worldwide. Speeds is usually fast now. |
Mirrors
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| 01/2003 |
Fish enthusiasts can now find a list of all European public aquariums that show a certain species. Click on 'Show aquariums' in the 'Internet sources' section of the Species Summary page. |
Esox lucius
Zeus faber
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| 11/2002 |
We created a new species-specific discussion forum, see new links 'ThisFishForum' and 'FishForum' in the Species Summary page. |
Species page
ThisFishForum
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| 11/2002 |
We updated the 'Length-Frequency Wizard' and added an advanced section
which allows estimation of total mortality, annual reproductive rate,
intrinsic rate of population increase and population doubling time. |
Lates niloticus
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| 11/2002 |
We added a feature that lets users upload their length-frequency data to FishBase for archival and use by others. This is available from Step 2 of the Length-frequency Wizard, which is available from the Species Summary page. |
Lates niloticus
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| 10/2002 |
We now have species-level links into the IUCN Red List database. In the species Summary page of a threatened species such as the Whale shark, just click on the underlined Red List status. |
Rhincodon typus
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| 09/2002 |
FAO catch and aquaculture production data are now available, either by clicking on the respective radio buttons in the 'Information by Topic' section, or by clickong on the 'FAO Catch' link in the 'Internet sources' section of the Species Summary page. |
FAO Menu
FAO Catch
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| 08/2002 |
Common names in Thai script can now be displayed and searched. See, for example, the end of the list of common names used in Thailand |
Thailand
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| 08/2002 |
Photos uploaded by Fish Watchers are now shown in a special section of the Thumbnails page, to increase exposure and attract more FishWatchers. |
Clupea harengus
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| 07/2002 |
We started connecting certain technical terms in the Species Summary page to the respective definitions in the Glossary. Just click on underlined terms. |
Oreochromis niloticus niloticus
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| 07/2002 |
We are replacing more and more graphs using a better and faster Java applet (KAVA Charts) |
Web Use
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| 07/2002 |
Our Life History Tool now calculates whole-body nitrogen and crude protein content from wet weight of fish. See 'Nitrogen & protein' section |
Scomber scombrus
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| 07/2002 |
A new 'FishBase in the Media' page keeps track of articles about FishBase. |
Media page
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| 07/2002 |
A new mapping tool developed by the Kansas Geographic Survey allows
zooming, point identification, different environmental layers and
environmental forecasting. In the List of Point Data, click on the KGS
Specimen Mapper link. |
Exocoetus volitans
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| 06/2002 |
Point data from the Species Analyst network of online musuem collections can now be merged, displayed and analysed together with FishBase data. Check the 'Include Fishnet-TSA data' box and click on the refresh button. |
Scomber scombrus
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| 06/2002 |
Over 700 websites have attached themselves to FishBase Species Summary pages. Most of these are of good quality with photos and additional information on the respective species. |
Attached sites
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| 06/2002 |
Over 140 Fish Watchers have uploaded observations (What? When? Where?), often with photos. |
FishWatcher
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| 05/2002 |
Users continue to make photos available to FishBase, thus assisting us in the goal to eventually have a picture of every fish on earth. Some o these photos are really beautiful. |
Best photos
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| 05/2002 |
To give better exposure to photos in FishBase, we have included stamps, diseases, and egg & larvae pictures in the thumbnail section which appears if one clicks on the photo in the Species Summary page. |
Thumbnails
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| 05/2002 |
In collaboration with the WhyWhere project we provide access to online biogeographic modelling, I.e., the ability to create distribution maps from point data based on inferences from environmental data. |
WhyWhere
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| 05/2002 |
For more than 1500 species we now provide information about resilience, I.e., the ability to recover from drastic reductions in population size. See the respective row in the Species Summary page. |
Resilience
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| 04/2002 |
We now have over 250 identification keys in FishBase, with some areas being completely covered (Europe; freshwater Southern Africa; Canada) and others nearing completion (Western Cnetral Pacific). |
Keys
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| 04/2002 |
We make an effort to link with national fish databases which usually offer more detailed local information. |
National databases
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| 04/2002 |
We have develop a first 'Web Wizard' that assists users in the analysis of length-frequency data and evaluates the benefits of more sustainable fishing regimes. In the example page, click on the LF-Wizard link and then follow the instructions. |
Web wizard
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| 04/2002 |
We now accept sponsors for our Species Summary pages. Income derived from that is used to support the FishBase encoder team in the Philippines. |
Sponsors
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| 02/2002 |
We crossed the threshold of over 1 million occurrence records in FishBase, thanks to contributions from several museum collections. These data are used to analyse the distributions and co-occurrence of species. |
Collections
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| 02/2002 |
We now show morphometric measurements for many species. We plan to use this for a new identification tool based on a few simple measurements. Click on 'Morphometrics' in the 'More Information' section of the Species Summary page. |
Abramis brama
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| 01/2002 |
Finally we can say Yes to the question: 'Do you also have recipes?' Just click on the respective link in the 'Internet sources' section of the Species Summary page. |
Recipes
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| 12/2001 |
We added an intelligent link to 'Google images' which finds additional pictures for many fishes and also for glossary terms. |
Google images
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| 10/2001 |
We continue to assign species to ecosystems. Together with information on preferred food this can be used to construct trophic pyramids as a first step towards understanding of large marine ecosystems. |
North Sea
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| 10/2001 |
We established intelligent links from several FishBase pages to find more references on a given topic in the free online Scirus bibliographic service. Just click on the 'Scirus' link e.g. on the 'Internet sources' section of the Species Summary page. |
Scirus
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| 09/2001 |
A new 'Which fish makes this sound' game has been created. |
Fish sounds
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| 07/2001 |
A new tool 'Fish at depth'shows the colors of a fish as they would appear at a given depth. Just click on the 'Fish at Depth' link below an enlarged photo. |
Fish at depth
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| 08/2000 |
Print your personal field guide for an area of your interest (Lake, River, Reef, Bay, group of species, ...) |
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