1. Introduction to FishBase www.fishbase.org Rainer Froese Institute for Marine Research Kiel, Germany rfroese@ifm.uni-kiel.de

2. Overview Some Statistics FishBase Hands-on New Data New Tools New Links

3. Some Statistics

5. Some Statistics FishBase vs Internet Usage Source for Internet growth: NUA Internet Services

6. Some Statistics Based on >1500 entries in the FishBase Guest Book

7. Some Statistics

9. Some Statistics

10. Where is the Science? 85 ISI Citations, 3 in Nature, 2 in Science IT June 2002

11. Some Statistics

13. New Data 28,100 Species 6,000 Etymologies >>>> 1.5 Million Occurrence Data (fish collections) >>>> 1,500 Resilience Data >>>> 150,000 Common Names (Abborre) >>>> 33,000 Photos >>>>

14. New Tools Length-Frequency Wizard >>>> MyFish Wizard >>>> Disease Wizard >>>> Identification Keys >>>>

15. New Links Public Aquariums >>>> ECOTOX >>>> FAO Country Profiles >>>> ICES Catch (Atlantic saury) >>>> BiOSC >>>> Videos (Anarhichas lupus) >>>> Self-registered Websites >>>>

17. Thank You