• Fisheries

Fisheries

World Fish Centre is a research centre aiming to improve the production and management of aquatic resources in developing countries.

Information services include:

• fishbase online and CDRom database
• library: maintains bibliographic database on fisheries and a database on "Indo-Pacific Red Tides"
• selective Fisheries Information Service (SFIS): question and answer, advisory and document delivery service
• ReefBase: online database on coral reefs and their resources. The database aims to facilitate the management of coral reefs and coverage includes: ecological surveys on benthic and reef fish communities, existing stresses on reefs, harvest values for different types of fisheries by reef, coastal tourism, mariculture activities, and oceanography and management practices
• one fish portal: collection of references and online documents focusing on the economic effects of climate change on fisheries

(World Fish Centre is renamed from International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM))