1. Status of FishBase in 2009 Rainer Froese IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel rfroese@ifm-geomar.de FishBase Mini-Symposium FAO, Rome, 9 September 2009

9. How Many Fish Are There? Based on FishBase 01/2009

10. What Do We Know About Them?

11. What Information is Available? Based on FishBase 01/2009 31,300

12. What is Used? Based on Kiel server, June – August 2009

13. Citations Based on FishBase 01/2009

14. Google Scholar, April 2006: 1610 citations, including 5 in Nature and 7 in Science

15. Who is Using it?

16. How did they find us?

17. Where From?

18. Google Analytics

20. www.aquamaps.org

22. Examples from AquaMaps: No Sharks in Antarctica

23. Examples from AquaMaps Whale shark (cosmopolitan)

25. Examples from AquaMaps Blackfin spiderfish (continental shelves)

26. Examples from AquaMaps Blackfin spiderfish (preliminary 2050)

27. Tools: Equatorial Species Richness Transect across the Indo-Pacific

28. Tools : Where to Place an MPA

29. Tools Mnemiopsis leidyi (invasive Black Sea)

31. Partners and Sponsors Partners and Sponsors

32. The FishBase Team