MarBEF Data System

FishBase

Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2025. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org, version (MM/YYYY). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1667

Contact:

Also accessible through:

https://www.fishbase.org

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Notes: https://www.fishbase.org/manual/English/FishbaseHow_to_cite_FishBase.htm

Description

FishBase is a global biodiversity information system on finfishes. From its initial goal to provide key facts on population dynamics for 200 major commercial species, FishBase has now grown to having a wide range of information on all species currently known in the world: taxonomy, biology, trophic ecology, life history, and uses, as well as historical data reaching back to 250 years. more

At present, FishBase covers >35,600 fish species compiled from >61,700 references in partnership with 2,520 collaborators, >329,500 common names and >64,000 pictures. Our website gathers more than 700,000 visits monthly.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Fish

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water

Contributors

University of British Columbia; Fisheries Centre, more, data creator

Pauly, Daniel

Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), more, data creator

Froese, Rainer

Related datasets

(Partly) included in:

SUMES project. D3.3: SUMES ES-model: A quantative marine ecosystem services model (supporting files)

Previous version:

Fishbase Version 2000, more

Other relation:

FishBase OBIS

Publication

Describing this dataset

Froese, R.; Pauly, D. (Ed.) (2000). FishBase 2000: Concepts, design and data sources. ICLARM Contribution, 1594. ICLARM: Los Baños. ISBN 971-8709-99-1. XVII, 344 pp.

Dataset status: In Progress

Data type: Data

Data origin: Data collection

Metadatarecord created: 2008-08-13

Information last updated: 2025-05-02

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