FishBase: A global information system on fishes

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. It included descriptions of 31,600 species, 279,100 common names in hundreds of languages, 49,300 pictures, and references to 44,200 works in the scientific literature.

 FishBase was developed at the WorldFish Center in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ( FAO) and many other partners, and with support from the European Commission ( EC). Since 2001 FishBase is supported by a consortium of nine research institutions. The consortium consists of:

1. World Fish Center
2. Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations
3. Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften (IFM)
4. Fisheries Centre University of British Columbia
5. Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
6. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren
7. Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences
8. Swedish Museum of Natural History
9. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.