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Fishbase Version 2000 [Fishbase Versie 2000]
Citation
Froese, R. And D. Pauly, eds., Fishbase. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources (ICLARM), Manila, Philippines, Version: Fishbase2000 (21 aug. 2004),, database, http://www.fishbase.org. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/42
Contact: Froese, Rainer
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Description
Global information system on fishes, including key information on all fish taxa. FishBase on the web contains practically all fish species known to science. more

FishBase is a relational database with information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more. FishBase on the web contains practically all fish species known to science. The FishBase 2000 CD-ROM contains full information on 25,000 species and comes on 4 CD-ROMS.
Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Brackish water, Bio-geographical regions, Biogeography, Biota, Environment, Fish, Fishery biology, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Taxonomy, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, World Waters, Pisces
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -45; MinLat: 26 - MaxLong: 68,8056; MaxLat: 86,0167 [WGS84]
World Waters [Marine Regions]
Taxonomic coverage
Pisces [WoRMS]
Parameters
General biology
Taxonomy
Contributors
Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), data manager
Froese, Rainer
University of British Columbia; Fisheries Centre, data manager
Pauly, Daniel
Worldfish Center, data owner
Related datasets
Published in:
AntOBIS: Antarctic Ocean Biodiversity Information System
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Previous version:
Fishbase Version 1996
Following version:
FishBase, more
Project
FishBase
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.
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Literature research
Release date: 2004-08-21
Metadatarecord created: 2004-05-10
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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