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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83" title="قاعدة الأسماك – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="قاعدة الأسماك" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%AF%D8%A7%D9%87_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%DB%8C" title="پایگاه داده ماهی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="پایگاه داده ماهی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%94%BC%EC%8B%9C%EB%B2%A0%EC%9D%B4%EC%8A%A4" title="피시베이스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="피시베이스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kapampangan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B7%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ഫിഷ്ബേസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഫിഷ്ബേസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nordfriisk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk nynorsk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishbase" title="Fishbase – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Fishbase" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="فش بيس – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="فش بيس" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishBase" title="FishBase – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="FishBase" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" 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style="white-space: nowrap">Description</th><td class="infobox-data">A large and extensively accessed biological database about fish</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Data types<br />captured</th><td class="infobox-data">Comprehensive species data, including taxonomy, biometrics, behaviour, distribution, habitats and photos</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Organism" title="Organism">Organisms</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Adult fish species (<a href="/wiki/Fish#"True_fish"_or_"finfish"" title="Fish">finfish</a>)</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender">Contact</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Research_center" class="mw-redirect" title="Research center">Research center</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/GEOMAR_Helmholtz_Centre_for_Ocean_Research_Kiel" title="GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel">GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel</a>, FishBase Consortium coordinator</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Authors</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pauly" title="Daniel Pauly">Daniel Pauly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Froese" title="Rainer Froese">Rainer Froese</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender">Access</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fishbase.us">fishbase.us</a></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender">Tools</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Computer_software" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer software">Standalone</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Historic versions available on CD</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: lavender">Miscellaneous</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Creative_Commons_license" title="Creative Commons license">CC-BY-NC</a> for data; various levels of licensing for media files (pictures, sounds, ...) to be checked case by case</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Software_versioning" title="Software versioning">Versioning</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Every even month of the year</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Data release<br />frequency</th><td class="infobox-data">Continuously updated</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Version</th><td class="infobox-data">Latest version: 02/2024</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Curation policy</th><td class="infobox-data">FishBase Consortium</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Bookmarkable<br />entities</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>FishBase</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Global_Species_Database" title="Global Species Database">global species database</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fish" title="Fish">fish</a> species (specifically <a href="/wiki/Fish#"True_fish"_or_"finfish"" title="Fish">finfish</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is the largest and most extensively accessed online database on adult finfish on the web.<sup id="cite_ref-Pew_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pew-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Over time it has "evolved into a dynamic and versatile ecological tool" that is widely cited in scholarly publications.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>FishBase provides comprehensive species data, including information on <a href="/wiki/Taxonomy_(biology)" title="Taxonomy (biology)">taxonomy</a>, geographical distribution, <a href="/wiki/Biometrics" title="Biometrics">biometrics</a> and <a href="/wiki/Morphology_(biology)" title="Morphology (biology)">morphology</a>, behaviour and habitats, ecology and <a href="/wiki/Population_dynamics" title="Population dynamics">population dynamics</a> as well as reproductive, metabolic and genetic data. There is access to tools such as <a href="/wiki/Ecological_pyramid" title="Ecological pyramid">trophic pyramids</a>, <a href="/wiki/Identification_key" title="Identification key">identification keys</a>, <a href="/wiki/Biogeography" title="Biogeography">biogeographical</a> modelling and fishery statistics and there are direct species level links to information in other databases such as <a href="/wiki/LarvalBase" title="LarvalBase">LarvalBase</a>, <a href="/wiki/GenBank" title="GenBank">GenBank</a>, the <a href="/wiki/IUCN_Red_List" title="IUCN Red List">IUCN Red List</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Catalog_of_Fishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalog of Fishes">Catalog of Fishes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of February 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=FishBase&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, FishBase included descriptions of 35,600 <a href="/wiki/Species" title="Species">species</a> and subspecies, with 329,500 <a href="/wiki/Common_name" title="Common name">common names</a>, 64,000 pictures, and references to 61,700 works in the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_literature" title="Scientific literature">scientific literature</a>. The site has about 700,000 visits per month.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FishBase&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The origins of FishBase go back to the 1970s, when the fisheries scientist <a href="/wiki/Daniel_Pauly" title="Daniel Pauly">Daniel Pauly</a> found himself struggling to test a hypothesis on how the growing ability of fish was affected by the size of their gills.<sup id="cite_ref-Bakun_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bakun-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hypotheses, such as this one, could be tested only if large amounts of empirical data were available.<sup id="cite_ref-Palomares_and_Bailly_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palomares_and_Bailly-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time, <a href="/wiki/Fisheries_management" title="Fisheries management">fisheries management</a> used analytical models which required estimates for fish growth and <a href="/wiki/Fish_mortality" title="Fish mortality">mortality</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It can be difficult for <a href="/wiki/Fishery_scientist" class="mw-redirect" title="Fishery scientist">fishery scientists</a> and managers to get the information they need on the species that concern them, because the relevant facts can be scattered across and buried in numerous journal articles, reports, newsletters and other sources. It can be particularly difficult for people in developing countries who need such information. Pauly believed that the only practical way fisheries managers could access the volume of data they needed was to assemble and consolidate all the data available in the published literature into some central and easily accessed repository.<sup id="cite_ref-Palomares_and_Bailly_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palomares_and_Bailly-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-AFS_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AFS-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such a database would be particularly useful if the data has also been standardised and validated.<sup id="cite_ref-Palomares_and_Bailly_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palomares_and_Bailly-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This would mean that when scientists or managers need to test a new hypothesis, the available data will already be there in a validated and accessible form, and there will be no need to create a new dataset and then have to validate it.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pauly recruited <a href="/wiki/Rainer_Froese" title="Rainer Froese">Rainer Froese</a>, and the beginnings of a software database along these lines was encoded in 1988. This database, initially confined to tropical fish, became the prototype for FishBase. FishBase was subsequently extended to cover all <a href="/wiki/Finfish" class="mw-redirect" title="Finfish">finfish</a>, and was launched on the <a href="/wiki/World_Wide_Web" title="World Wide Web">Web</a> in August 1996. It is now the largest and most accessed online database for fish in the world.<sup id="cite_ref-Palomares_and_Bailly_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palomares_and_Bailly-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1995 the first <a href="/wiki/CD-ROM" title="CD-ROM">CD-ROM</a> was released as "FishBase 100". Subsequent CDs have been released annually. The software runs on <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Access" title="Microsoft Access">Microsoft Access</a> which operates only on <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a>. </p><p>FishBase covers adult finfish, but does not detail the early and juvenile stages of fish. In 1999 a complementary database, called <a href="/wiki/LarvalBase" title="LarvalBase">LarvalBase</a>, went online under the supervision of Bernd Ueberschär. It covers <a href="/wiki/Ichthyoplankton" title="Ichthyoplankton">ichthyoplankton</a> and the juvenile stage of fishes, with detailed data on fish <a href="/wiki/Fish_egg" class="mw-redirect" title="Fish egg">eggs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Larva" title="Larva">larvae</a>, fish <a href="/wiki/Identification_(biology)" title="Identification (biology)">identification</a>, as well as data relevant to the rearing of young fish in <a href="/wiki/Aquaculture" title="Aquaculture">aquaculture</a>. Given FishBase's success, there was a demand for a database covering forms of aquatic life other than finfish. This resulted, in 2006, in the birth of <a href="/wiki/SeaLifeBase" title="SeaLifeBase">SeaLifeBase</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Palomares_and_Bailly_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Palomares_and_Bailly-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The long-term goal of SeaLifeBase is to develop an information system modelled on FishBase, but including all forms of aquatic life, both marine and freshwater, apart from the finfish which FishBase specialises in. Altogether, there are about 300,000 known species in this category.<sup id="cite_ref-home_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-home-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organization">Organization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FishBase&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Organization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As awareness of FishBase has grown among fish specialists, it has attracted over 2,480 contributors and collaborators. Since 2000 FishBase has been supervised by a consortium of nine international institutions. The FishBase consortium has grown to twelve members. The <a href="/wiki/GEOMAR_Helmholtz_Centre_for_Ocean_Research_Kiel" title="GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel">GEOMAR – Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research for Ocean Research Kiel</a> (GEOMAR) in Germany, functions as the coordinating body<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, since February 2017, Quantitative Aquatics, Inc. functions as the administrative body.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="margin:1em auto; background-color: #F2F2F2;"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2"><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;"><b>The FishBase Consortium</b></div> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="12"><figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:IFM_Geomar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/IFM_Geomar.jpg/220px-IFM_Geomar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/IFM_Geomar.jpg/330px-IFM_Geomar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/IFM_Geomar.jpg/440px-IFM_Geomar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3474" data-file-height="2314" /></a><figcaption><div class="center" style="width:auto; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;">The <a href="/wiki/GEOMAR_Helmholtz_Centre_for_Ocean_Research_Kiel" title="GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel">GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel</a> coordinates the FishBase Consortium<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></figcaption></figure> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Aristotle_University_of_Thessaloniki" title="Aristotle University of Thessaloniki">Aristotle University of Thessaloniki</a>, Thessaloniki, Greece<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Academy_of_Fishery_Science" class="mw-redirect" title="Chinese Academy of Fishery Science">Chinese Academy of Fishery Science</a>, Beijing, China </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/UBC_Institute_for_the_Oceans_and_Fisheries" title="UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries">Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia" title="University of British Columbia">University of British Columbia</a>, Vancouver, Canada </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization" title="Food and Agriculture Organization">Food and Agriculture Organization</a>, Rome, Italy </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mus%C3%A9um_National_d%27Histoire_Naturelle" class="mw-redirect" title="Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle">Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle</a>, Paris, France </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Royal_Museum_for_Central_Africa" title="Royal Museum for Central Africa">Royal Museum for Central Africa</a>, Tervuren, Belgium </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Swedish_Museum_of_Natural_History" title="Swedish Museum of Natural History">Swedish Museum of Natural History</a>, Stockholm, Sweden </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/WorldFish" title="WorldFish">WorldFish</a>, Penang, Malaysia </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Federal_University_of_Sergipe" title="Federal University of Sergipe">Universidade Federal de Sergipe</a>, São Cristóvão – SE, Brazil </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/University_of_Western_Australia" title="University of Western Australia">University of Western Australia</a>, Perth, Australia </td></tr> <tr> <td><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.q-quatics.org/">Quantitative Aquatics, Incorporated</a>, Laguna, Philippines </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FishBase&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Catalog_of_Fishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Catalog of Fishes">Catalog of Fishes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_online_encyclopedias" title="List of online encyclopedias">List of online encyclopedias</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FishBase&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Froese R and Pauly D (eds) (2000) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fishbase.org/manual/english/contents.htm"><i>FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources</i></a>. 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Philippines.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Pew-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Pew_2-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pewenvironment.org/research-programs/marine-fellow/id/8589941905">Marine Fellow: Rainer Froese</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131221164050/http://www.pewenvironment.org/research-programs/marine-fellow/id/8589941905">Archived</a> 21 December 2013 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>Pew Environment Group</i>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stergiou KI and Tsikliras AC (2006) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ichthyology.bio.auth.gr/files/tsikliras/d/d3.pdf">Scientific impact of FishBase: A citation analysis</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111008223552/http://ichthyology.bio.auth.gr/files/tsikliras/d/d3.pdf">Archived</a> 8 October 2011 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> In: Palomares MLD, Stergiou KI and Pauly D (eds.), <i>Fishes in Databases and Ecosystems</i>. <i><a href="/wiki/UBC_Institute_for_the_Oceans_and_Fisheries" title="UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries">UBC Fisheries Centre</a></i>, Research reports <b>14</b>(4): 2–6.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fishbase.us/References/FBRefList.php">References Citing FishBase</a> FishBase. 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Main web site.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ichthyology.bio.auth.gr/index.php?q=fishbase/auth">Fishbase and Aristotle University</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120327195836/http://ichthyology.bio.auth.gr/index.php?q=fishbase%2Fauth">Archived</a> 27 March 2012 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <i>Aristotle University of Thessaloniki</i>, 5 August 2006.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=FishBase&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Bailly N (2010) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.fishbase.us/Nomenclature/FBCofFNames.php">Why there may be discrepancies in the assessment of scientific names between the Catalog of Fishes and FishBase</a> Version 2, 6 May 2010.</li> <li>Bailly N, Reyes Jr R, Atanacio R and Froese R (2010) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.openstarts.units.it/dspace/bitstream/10077/3743/1/Bailly%20et%20al,%20bioidentify.pdf">"Simple Identification Tools in FishBase"</a> In: Nimis PL and Vignes Lebbe R. (eds) <i>Tools for Identifying Biodiversity: Progress and Problems</i>, pages 31–36. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-88-8303-295-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-88-8303-295-0">978-88-8303-295-0</a>.</li> <li>Christensen V, CJ Walters, R Ahrens, J Alder, J Buszowski, LB Christensen, WWL Cheung, J Dunne, R Froese, V Karpouzi, K Kaschner, K Kearney, S Lai, V Lam, MLD Palomares, A Peters-Mason, C Piroddia, JL Sarmiento, J Steenbeek, R Sumaila, R Watson, D Zeller and D Pauly (2009) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www2.fisheries.com/files/Christensen_etal_2009.pdf">Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems</a> <i>Ecological Modelling</i>, <b>220</b>(17): 1984–1996.</li> <li>Froese R (2011) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=baUySByM5DIC&q=Ecosystem+Approaches+to+Fisheries:+A+Global+Perspective">"The science in Fishbase"</a> In: <a href="/wiki/Villy_Christensen" title="Villy Christensen">Villy Christensen</a> and Jay Maclean (eds) <i>Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries: A Global Perspective</i>, Cambridge University Press, pages 47–54. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-13022-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-13022-6">978-0-521-13022-6</a>.</li> <li>Froese R and Pauly D (eds) (2000) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://fishbase.org/manual/english/contents.htm"><i>FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources</i></a> ICLARM, Philippines.</li> <li>Froese R and Pauly D (1994) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ifm-geomar.academia.edu/RainerFroese/Papers/541863/Fishbase_as_a_tool_for_comparing_the_life_history_patterns_of_flatfish#">"Fishbase as a tool for comparing the life history patterns of flatfish"</a> <i>Netherlands Journal of Sea Research</i>, <b>32</b>(3/4): 235–239.</li> <li>Nauen CE (2004) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228492952_A_public_electronic_archive_on_the_world's_fishes_in_support_of_sustainable_fisheries">A public electronic archive on the world’s fishes in support of sustainable fisheries</a> CTA/Commonwealth Secretariat Seminar, Expert Meeting on ACP-EU Fisheries Relations, Brussels.</li> <li>Palomares, M.L.D., N. Bailly and D. Pauly (2009) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120217032015/http://www.seaaroundus.org/researcher/dpauly/PDF/2009/Books%26Chapters/FishBaseSeaLifeBaseAndDatabaseDrivenEcosystemModeling.pdf">FishBase, SeaLifeBase and database-driven ecosystem modeling</a> p. 156–158. In: M.L.D. Palomares, L. Morissette, A. Cisnero-Montemayor, D. Varkey, M. Coll and C. Piroddi (eds.) Ecopath 25 Years Conference Proceedings: Extended Abstracts. UBC Fisheries Centre Research Reports <b>17</b>(3).</li> <li>Pauly D (1997) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120217030630/http://www.seaaroundus.org/researcher/dpauly/PDF/1997/OtherItems/TheScienceInFishBase.pdf">"The Science in FishBase"</a> <i>EC Fisheries Cooperation Bulletin,</i> <b>10</b>(2): 4–6.</li> <li>Robertson R (2008) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1472-4642.2008.00519.x/full">"Global biogeographical data bases on marine fishes: caveat emptor"</a> <i>Diversity and Distributions,</i> <b>14</b>(6): 891–892.</li> <li>Ueberschär B and Teltow M (1999) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://travel-net-24.com/norwegen/fishbase%20eu.pdf">"FishBase goes fishing"</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged October 2017">permanent dead 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Great_Barracuda_off_the_Netherland_Antilles.jpg/210px-Great_Barracuda_off_the_Netherland_Antilles.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Great_Barracuda_off_the_Netherland_Antilles.jpg/280px-Great_Barracuda_off_the_Netherland_Antilles.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em"><a href="/wiki/Wild_fisheries" title="Wild fisheries">Wild<br />fisheries</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_fisheries" title="Ocean fisheries">Ocean fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Diversity_of_fish" title="Diversity of fish">Diversity of fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coastal_fish" title="Coastal fish">Coastal fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coral_reef_fish" title="Coral reef fish">Coral reef fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demersal_fish" title="Demersal fish">Demersal fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forage_fish" title="Forage fish">Forage fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pelagic_fish" title="Pelagic fish">Pelagic fish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cod_fisheries" title="Cod fisheries">Cod fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crab_fisheries" title="Crab fisheries">Crab fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eel_life_history" title="Eel life history">Eel fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krill_fishery" title="Krill fishery">Krill fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kelp#Kelp_in_history_and_culture" title="Kelp">Kelp fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lobster_fishing" title="Lobster fishing">Lobster fisheries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrimp_fishery" title="Shrimp fishery">Shrimp fishery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eel_ladder" class="mw-redirect" title="Eel ladder">Eel ladder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_ladder" title="Fish ladder">Fish ladder</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_screen" title="Fish screen">Fish screen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_migration" title="Fish migration">Migration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salmon_run" title="Salmon run">Salmon run</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sardine_run" title="Sardine run">Sardine run</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shoaling_and_schooling" title="Shoaling and schooling">Shoaling and schooling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marine_habitat" title="Marine habitat">Marine habitat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marine_snow" title="Marine snow">Marine snow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Water_column" title="Water column">Water column</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Upwelling" title="Upwelling">Upwelling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humboldt_Current" title="Humboldt Current">Humboldt current</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Algal_bloom" title="Algal bloom">Algal blooms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dead_zone_(ecology)" title="Dead zone (ecology)">Dead zones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fish_kill" title="Fish kill">Fish kill</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Fisheries_law,_management,_sustainability_and_conservation" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Fisheries_law" title="Fisheries law">Fisheries law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fisheries_management" title="Fisheries management">management</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sustainable_fishery" title="Sustainable fishery">sustainability</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marine_conservation" title="Marine conservation">conservation</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Law</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fisheries_law" title="Fisheries law">Fisheries law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Exclusive_economic_zone" title="Exclusive economic zone">Exclusive economic zone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Illegal,_unreported_and_unregulated_fishing" title="Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing">Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_the_Law_of_the_Sea" title="United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea">United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations_Fish_Stocks_Agreement" title="United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement">United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fisheries_Convention" title="Fisheries Convention">Fisheries Convention</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Stevens_Fishery_Conservation_and_Management_Act" title="Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act">Magnuson–Stevens Act</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg/140px-Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg" decoding="async" width="140" height="99" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg/210px-Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg/280px-Yellowfin_tuna_nurp.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1558" data-file-height="1106" /></a></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Management</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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organisation</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:7em">Sustainability</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sustainable_fishery" title="Sustainable fishery">Sustainable fishery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maximum_sustainable_yield" title="Maximum sustainable yield">Maximum sustainable yield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_commercially_important_fish_species" title="List of commercially important fish species">List of commercially important fish species</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sustainable_seafood" title="Sustainable seafood">Sustainable seafood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Overfishing" title="Overfishing">Overfishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_fishing" title="Environmental impact of fishing">Environmental impact of fishing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fishing_down_the_food_web" title="Fishing down the food web">Fishing down the food web</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Destructive_fishing_practices" title="Destructive fishing practices">Destructive fishing practices</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Future_of_Marine_Animal_Populations" title="Future of Marine Animal Populations">Future of Marine Animal Populations</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunken_Billions" title="The Sunken Billions">The Sunken Billions</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_End_of_the_Line_(book)" title="The End of the Line (book)">The End of the Line</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bycatch" title="Bycatch">Bycatch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discards" title="Discards">Discards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Incidental_catch" title="Incidental catch">Incidental catch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cetacean_bycatch" title="Cetacean bycatch">Cetacean bycatch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turtle_excluder_device" title="Turtle excluder device">Turtle excluder device</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shrimp-Turtle_Case" title="Shrimp-Turtle 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