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Quantitative Aquatics Incorporated (Q-quatics).[1], is a scientific, non-profit, non-government organization based in the Philippines with offices located in the city of Los Baños. Q-quatics maintains FishBase and SeaLifeBase, two online global aquatic information systems that provide biological, ecological and other key information on all fish species and non-fish marine organisms[2]. It is also in charge of AquaMaps, the databases’ species distribution modelling component.

Through collaborations and partnerships, Q-quatics also provides standardized data for interoperability tools, data for ecological- and ecosystem-based models, education and capacity building[3].

Q-quatics is part of the FishBase Consortium, which is comprised of 13 academic, research and international institutions across four continents, namely, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy; Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France; Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium; Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece; Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Beijing, China; Universidade Federal de Sergipe, São Cristóvão, Brazil; WorldFish, Penang, Malaysia; University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, Hong Kong, China.[4]

The FishBase Consortium  provides scientific and technical guidance to ensure that Q-quatics’ global species databases remain current and relevant with evolving global issues on biodiversity, environmental recovery and protection, sustainable development, fisheries management, the impacts of climate change and citizen science.

FishBase, SeaLifeBase and AquaMaps constitute the hub that advances humanity’s understanding of aquatic biodiversity and promotes the sustainable management and conservation of the global ocean.[5]

FishBase[4] is a global open access information system on finfishes containing published scientific data on taxonomy, trophic ecology, reproduction and life-history traits, population dynamics, habitat and distribution, morphology and physiology, fish as food, fish photos, and fish sounds[6][7]. It provides a quick access to comprehensive information on a given species for anybody interested. It also allows specialists to carry out comparative studies between species groups or geographical areas. It is the largest and most widely accessed online fish database[2][6] and in the top 1% of all cited literature published in this and the previous century[6]. As of June 2023, FishBase includes descriptions of 35,100 species and subspecies, with 325,900 common names and 62,200 fish pictures compiled from 59,800 references, in partnership with 2,500 collaborators[8]. Its website gathers more than 700,000 visits monthly[8].

SeaLifeBase[9] is a global open access information system inspired by and patterned after FishBase, created in 2005 [first went online in 2008] to cover all types of marine organisms apart from fish[2]. It provides biological and ecological information necessary to conduct biodiversity and ecosystem studies, using the scientific name as ‘hook’ to organize biodiversity information.[10.] As of June 2023, it includes descriptions of 70,600 species and subspecies, 59,500 common names, 15,600 pictures, from 39,500 references. Its website has about 200,000 visits per month[10].

AquaMaps[11] is the global aquatic biogeography initiative of Q-quatics that generates model-based, large-scale predictions of the natural occurrences of aquatic species. It creates computer-generated maps that predict the distribution of a given species by using estimates of species preferences, called environmental envelopes, derived from occurrence data from online sources such as GBIF and OBIS, filtered by the distribution of a given species and its habitat retrieved from FishBase and in SeaLifeBase, which are matched against local environmental conditions to assess the suitability of a given area in the ocean for the particular species. These maps can be reviewed, edited and approved by experts[11][12].

Data in these global species databases have been critical in supporting research and the development of tools focusing on the management and restoration of fish stocks to biologically sustainable levels, the protection of marine environment, and the prediction of potential impacts of our increasingly changing climate on marine biodiversity[13][14].

Q-quatics was launched in 2017. Initial funding support came from the FishBase Consortium, Oak Foundation, Oceana, Mundus maris, VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute) and WoRMS. Since then, Q-quatics has engaged in collaboration and received support from more partners including Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), Thalassa Foundation, IUCN, Minderoo Foundation, Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission in West Africa, World Wildlife Fund, University of Minnesota, University of Florida, and Environmental Defense Fund, among others[1].

Since 2021, as part of the EcoScope Consortium, Q-quatics helps address ecosystem degradation and anthropogenic negative impact on fisheries in European seas through the provision of FishBase, SeaLifeBase and AquaMaps data and related applications for various analyses and products of the Ecoscope Project[15].

In coordination with the Centre for Marine Futures at the University of Western Australia, Q-quatics has publicly made available through FishBase, 15 years of baited remote underwater video systems (BRUVS)[16] curated data comprised of 150,000 records of more than 250 species from over 30 locations globally. Imagery data from BRUVS, a tool gathering important evidence to protect ocean wildlife and biodiversity[17], has been incorporated into FishBase, making them available to the global research community[18].

Nutritional data about fish species from all around the world was added to the FishBase database as of 2021, to plug a knowledge gap that will tackle the global issue of malnutrition by providing easy access to open source nutrient composition data[19]. Dubbed ‘FishNutrients,’ this new tool incorporates empirical data for more than 600 species of fish from fresh and marine waters and modeled data for more than 5,000 species[20][21].

To help raise awareness regarding the catch, marketing and consumption of juvenile fishes which haven't reproduced and added to the population, and appeal to the public on how they can contribute more to the sustainable use of marine and freshwater resources, Q-quatics partnered with Mundus maris, Fair-Fish International and the Sea Around Us initiative to develop an educational Android app known as the FishBase Guide[22]. The app is available in Google Play since October 2021 and it provides free-to-access data on the size at which different fish mature and reproduce, their IUCN Red List Status,length-weight-relationship[23], estimated body weights and other information useful to fishers and consumers in making informed decisions that support sustainability efforts[22][24]

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  2. ^ a b c Grüss, Arnaud; Palomares, Maria L. D.; Poelen, Jorrit H.; Barile, Josephine R.; Aldemita, Casey D.; Ortiz, Shelumiel R.; Barrier, Nicolas; Shin, Yunne-Jai; Simons, James; Pauly, Daniel (2019-04-24). "Building bridges between global information systems on marine organisms and ecosystem models". Ecological Modelling. 398: 1–19. Bibcode:2019EcMod.398....1G. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2019.01.023. ISSN 0304-3800. S2CID 91326101.
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  9. ^ Palomares MLD and Pauly D (Eds). "SeaLifeBase". SeaLifeBase. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
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  17. ^ Meeuwig, Jessica Jane; Thompson, Christopher David Harburn; Forrest, John Andrew; Christ, Hanna Jabour; Letessier, Tom Bech; Meeuwig, Dirk Jason (2021). "Pulling Back the Blue Curtain: A Pelagic Monitoring Program for the Blue Belt". Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. doi:10.3389/fmars.2021.649123. ISSN 2296-7745.
  18. ^ Meeuwig J (2021). "Counting and Measuring Fishes: The Use of Baited Remote Underwater Video Systems (BRUVS). ). In: Froese R and Pauly D. Editors. 2021. FishBase" (PDF). FishBase. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
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