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FishBase is a comprehensive database of information about fish. A Computer Database is a structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system Fish are aquatic Vertebrate animals that are typically ectothermic (previously Cold-blooded) covered with scales, and equipped with two As of October 2007, it included descriptions of over 30,000 species, over 260,000 common names in hundreds of languages, over 45,000 pictures, and references to more than 40,000 works in the scientific literature. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. In Biology, a species is one of the basic units of Biological classification and a Taxonomic rank. For Wikipedia aspects see WikipediaNaming conventions (common names, WikipediaNaming conventions, and WikipediaStyle manual. A language is a dynamic set of visual auditory or tactile Symbols of Communication and the elements used to manipulate them Scientific literature comprises scientific Publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and Social sciences

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In 1987, Daniel Pauly, inspired by the Species Identification Sheets and other products Walter Fischer had generated for the Food and Agriculture Organization in the 1970s, proposed a standardized database for fish species, as a part of the "ICLARM Software Project". Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar) Dr Daniel Pauly is a French -born biologist famous for his work in studying human impacts on global fisheries The WorldFish Center (originally International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management or ICLARM) is an international research center specializing in fisheries The following year, he began to work with Rainer Froese, who had been working on an expert system to identify fish larvae. An expert system is Software that attempts to reproduce the performance of one or more human Experts most commonly in a specific Problem domain, and is After a first attempt to build a system using Prolog, Froese switched to DataEase, a relational database for DOS. Prolog is a Logic programming language It is a general purpose language often associated with Artificial intelligence and Computational linguistics DataEase is a rapid application development tool for developing relationally-organized data-intensive Software applications for personal computers A relational database is a Database that groups data using common attributes found in the data set DOS, short for "Disk Operating System" is a shorthand term for several closely related Operating systems that dominated the IBM PC compatible market In 1989 the project received its first grant.

In 1993 the project switched to Microsoft Access, and 1995 the first CD-ROM was released as "FishBase 100". Microsoft Office Access, previously known as Microsoft Access, is a Relational database management system from Microsoft that combines the relational CD-ROM (an initialism of "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory " is a pre-pressed Compact Disc that contains data accessible to but not writable Its initial reviews in scientific journals lauded the scope but criticized the remaining gaps in coverage. Subsequent CDs were released annually, with the FishBase 2004 release needing five CDs, or one DVD. The software needs Windows 98 or later, and is not available on any other computer platform such as Mac OS X or Linux. Windows 98 ( codenamed Memphis) is a graphical Operating system released on 25 June 1998 by Microsoft and the successor to Windows 95 Mac OS X (mæk oʊ ɛs tɛn is a line of computer Operating systems developed marketed and sold by Apple Inc, the latest of which is pre-loaded on all currently Linux (commonly pronounced ˈlɪnəks

FishBase first appeared on the World Wide Web in August 1996, and a webmaster was hired in the following year. The World Wide Web (commonly shortened to the Web) is a system of interlinked Hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. The webmaster (feminine webmistress) also called the Web architect, the Web developer, the site author, or the website In 1999 a new module on ichthyoplankton and detailled data on fish larvae identification and rearing was created (LarvalBase) under the supervision of Bernd Ueberschaer. Eventually, the complete data of the CDs became available online.

Since the year 2000, FishBase has been run by the FishBase Consortium. The consortium consists of:

As awareness of FishBase has grown among fish specialists, it has attracted over 1300 contributors and collaborators. The Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA is an ethnographical and Natural history Museum in Tervuren in the suburbs of Brussels, The Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (often called the Aristotelian University) named after the philosopher Aristotle, is the largest university of The Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle ( MNHN) is the French national Museum of Natural history. The Swedish Museum of Natural History (in Swedish Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, literally the National Museum of Natural History in Stockholm, is The WorldFish Center (originally International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management or ICLARM) is an international research center specializing in fisheries In order to preserve its value as a scientific database, FishBase is not allowed to include original data; all of its content must be based on previously-published material.

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