Rainer Froese

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Rainer Froese
Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR)[1]

Rainer Froese (born 25 August 1950 in

large marine ecosystems.[3]

Froese is best known for his work developing and maintaining

ICLARM in Manila. Since 2000, he has coordinated the large international consortium that now oversees FishBase.[4] Its searchable database contains 34,000 fish species and the site receives over 30 million views each month.[5] He is also the coordinator of AquaMaps, which produces computer-generated global distribution maps for marine species,[6] and science adviser to SeaLifeBase, which is an extension of FishBase to aquatic organisms other than fish.[7][8]

Froese has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications.

mean trophic level in the oceans has progressively decreased. More recently, in a 2011 letter to Nature, he stated that the European Common Fisheries Policy "consistently gets to overrule scientific advice and drive fish stocks to the brink of collapse. Without massive subsidies, European fisheries would be bankrupt: the cost of hunting the few remaining fish would exceed the income from selling the catch."[11]

Some publications

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences (IFM-GEOMAR), Kiel Archived 27 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on 19 December 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
  3. ^ a b c Marine Fellow: Rainer Froese Pew Environment Group.
  4. ^ Dr. Rainer Froese Oceania. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  5. ^ FishBase – main web page.
  6. ^ AquaMaps – home web page
  7. ^ Sealifebase: Partners Archived 3 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Updated 30 September 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  8. ^ Sealifebase: Home Archived 14 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine Updated 30 September 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2011.
  9. ^ Board of Trustees Archived 30 July 2012 at archive.today, FishBase Information and Research Group. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
  10. ^ Pauly D, Christensen V, Dalsgaard J, Froese R and Torres F (1998) "Fishing down marine food webs" Science, 279: 860–863.

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