• Senior scientist, 2001- present, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany

• Senior scientist, 1990 - 2000, ICLARM, MC P.O. Box 2631 0718 Makati, Philippines

• Scientific employee, 1985 - 1990, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel

• Nautical apprentice and nautical officer on German merchant ships, 1970 – 1977, license to steer ships of all sizes on all oceans.

• Fisheries biology

• Population dynamics and life history of fishes

• Biodiversity patterns

• Bio-informatics

• Froese, R. and A. Proelß. 2010. Rebuilding fish stocks no later than 2015: will Europe meet the deadline? Fish and Fisheries. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-2979.2009.00349.x PDF PM PPT PPT Supporting Info PM_German Nature News

• Ready, J., Kaschner, K., South, A.B., Eastwood, P.D., Rees, T., Rius, J., Agbayani, E., Kullander, S.O., and Froese, R. Predicting the distributions of marine organisms at the global scale, Ecological Modelling. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.10.025 DOI

• Binohlan, C. and R. Froese. 2009. Empirical equations for estimating maximum length from length at first maturity. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 25:611-613 doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0426.2009.01317.x PDF

• Christensen, V., Walters, C.J., Ahrens, R., Alder, J., Buszowski, J.,Christensen, L.B., Cheung, W.W.L., Dunne, J., Froese, R., Karpouzi, V.,Kaschner, K., Kearney, K., Lai, S., Lam, V., Palomares, M.L.D., Peters-Mason, A., Piroddi, C., Sarmiento, J.L., Steenbeek, J., Sumaila, R.,Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D. 2009. Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems. Ecological Modelling, 220:1984-1996. DOI:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.04.041 PDF

• Froese, R. 2008. The continuous smooth hockey stick: a newly proposed spawner-recruitment model. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 24: 703-704, DOI:10.1111/j.1439-0426.2008.01187.x DOC

• Froese, R., A. Stern-Pirlot and K. Kesner-Reyes. 2008. Out of new stocks in 2020: a comment on “Not all fisheries will be collapsed in 2048”. Marine Policy 33:180-181, DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2008.03.009 PDF

• Froese, R., A. Stern-Pirlot, H. Winker and D. Gascuel. 2008. Size Matters: How Single-Species Management Can Contribute To Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management. Fisheries Research 92:231-241, DOI:10.1016/j.fishres.2008.01.005. PDF

• Tolentino-Pablico, G., N. Bailly, R. Froese and C. Elloran. 2008. Seaweeds preferred by herbivorous fishes. Journal of Applied Phycology 20:933-938. DOI:10.1007/s10811-007-9290-4 PDF

• Casal, C.M.V., S. Luna, R. Froese, N. Bailly, R. Atanacio and E. Agbayani. 2007. Alien species in the Philippines: pathways, biological characteristics, establishment and invasiveness. Journal of Environmental Science and Management 10(1):1-9 PDF

• Pullin, R.S.V., R. Froese and D. Pauly. 2007. Indicators for the sustainability of aquaculture. p. 53-72 In T.M. Bert (ed.), Ecological and Genetic Implications of Aquaculture Activities. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. PDF

• Froese, R. 2006. Volkszählung im Meer. p. 384 In G. Hempel, I. Hempel and S. Schiel (eds.). Faszination Meeresforschung. Ein ökologisches Lesebuch. Verlag H.M. Hauschild, Bremen, 462 p.

• Froese, R. 2006. Cube law, condition factor, and weight-length relationships: history, meta-analysis and recommendations. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 22(4):241-253. DOI:10.1111/j.1439-0426.2006.00805.x PDF

• Priede, I.G., R. Froese, D.M. Bailey, O.A. Bergstad, M.A. Collins, J.E. Dyb, C. Henriques, E. Jones and N. King. 2006. The absence of sharks from abyssal regions of the World’s oceans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences:1-7 doi:10.1098/rspb.2005.3461 PDF

• Zeller, D., R, Froese and D. Pauly. 2005. On losing and recovering fisheries and marine science data. Marine Policy 29:69-73 On losing and recovering fisheries and marine science data PDF

• Froese, R. 2004. Keep it simple: three indicators to deal with overfishing. Fish and Fisheries 5:86-91 doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2004.00144.x PDF

• Froese, R. and S. Luna. 2004. No Relationship between Fecundity and Annual Reproductive Rate in Bony Fish. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 34(1):11-20 PDF

• Froese, R., U. Piatkowski, S. Garthe and D. Pauly. 2004. Trophic signatures of marine organisms in the Mediterranean as compared with other ecosystems. Belgian Journal of Zoology 134:31-36. PDF

• Froese, R. and C. Binohlan. 2003. Simple methods to obtain preliminary growth estimates for fish. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 19(6):376-379 doi:10.1111/j.1439-0426.2003.00490.x PDF

• Froese, R. and R. Reyes Jr. 2003. Use them or lose them: the need to make collection databases publicly available. p. 585-591. In A. Legakis, S. Sfenthourakis, R. Polymeri and M. Thessalou-Legaki (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Zoology. DOC

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2003. FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources. Translated from English to Chinese by Shao, Kwang-Tsao, published by the Council of Agriculture and National Digital Archives Program, NSC, 2003. 358 p.

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly 2003. Dynamik der Überfischung, p. 288-295 In J. Lozán, E. Rachor, K. Reise, J. Sündermann und H. von Westernhagen (eds.) Warnsignale aus Nordsee und Wattenmeer - eine aktuelle Umweltbilanz. GEO, Hamburg. 448 p. PDF

• Watson, R., D. Pauly, V. Christensen, R. Froese, A. Longhurst, T. Platt, S. Sathyendranath, J. O'Reilly and P. Celone. 2003. Mapping fisheries onto marine ecosystems for regional, oceanic and global integrations. p. 375-395 In G. Hempel and K. Sherman (eds.) Large marine ecosystems of the world. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

• Pauly, D. and R. Froese. 2001. Fish Stocks. In Simon Levin (ed.). Encyclopedia of biodiversity. Academic Press, San Diego, Vol. 2:801-814.

• Pauly, D., Ma. L. Palomares, R. Froese, P. Sa-a, M. Vakily, D. Preikshot and S. Wallace. 2001. Fishing down Canadian food webs. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 58:51-62 doi:10.1139/cjfas-58-1-51 PDF

• Pauly, D., P. Tyedmers, R. Froese and L.Y. Liu. 2001. Fishing down and farming up the food web. Conservation Biology in Practice 2(4):25 PDF

• Froese, R. and C. Binohlan 2000. Empirical relationships to estimate asymptotic length, length at first maturity and length at maximum yield per recruit in fishes, with a simple method to evaluate length frequency data. J. Fish Biol. 56:758-773. DOC

• Froese, R. and M.L.D. Palomares 2000. Growth, natural mortality, length-weight relationship, maximum length and length-at-first-maturity of the coelacanth Latimeria chalumnae. Environ. Biol. Fish. 58:45-52. DOC

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2000. FishBase 2000: concepts, design and data sources. ICLARM, 344 p. With 4 CD-ROMs. (43 chapters authored by RF). HTML

• Albert, J., R. Froese, R. Bauchot and H. Ito. 1999. Diversity of brain size in fishes: preliminary analysis of a database including 1174 species in 45 orders, p. 647-656. In B. Séret and J.-Y. Sire (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Indo-Pacific Fisheries Conference, Noumea, New Caledonia, 3-8 November 1997. Soc. Fr. Ichthyol., Paris, France.

• Capuli, E. and R. Froese. 1999. Status of the freshwater fishes of the Philippines, p. 381-384. In B. Séret and J.-Y. Sire (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Indo-Pacific Fisheries Conference, Noumea, New Caledonia, 3-8 November 1997. Soc. Fr. Ichthyol., Paris, France.

• Casal, C.M.V., D. Bartley, R. Froese, P. Sa-a and M.L.D. Palomares. 1999. Documenting the status of freshwater fish introductions in Oceania, p. 385-392.In B. Séret and J.-Y. Sire (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Indo-Pacific Fisheries Conference, Noumea, New Caledonia, 3-8 November 1997. Soc. Fr. Ichthyol., Paris, France.

• Froese, R. 1999. The good, the bad, and the ugly: a critical look at species and their institutions from a user’s perspective. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 9:375-378. PDF

• Froese, R., N. Bailly, G.U. Coronado, P. Pruvost, R. Reyes and J.-C. Hureau. 1999. A new procedure to evaluate fish collection databases, p. 697-705. In B. Séret and J.-Y. Sire (eds.) Proceedings of the 5th Indo-Pacific Fisheries Conference, Noumea, New Caledonia, 3-8 November 1997. Soc. Fr. Ichthyol., Paris, France. DOC

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. FishBase 99: Concepts, structure, et sources des données. ICLARM, Manille, Philippines. 324 p. [in French]

• Froese, R. and A. Torres. 1999. Fishes under threat: an analysis of the fishes in the 1996 IUCN Red List, p. 131-144. In R.S.V. Pullin, D.M. Bartley and J. Kooiman (eds.) Towards policies for conservation and sustainable use of aquatic genetic resources, ICLARM Conf. Proc. 59, 277p. PDF

• Froese, R. 1998. Length-weight relationships for 18 less-studied fish species. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 14:117-118 PDF

• Froese, R. 1998. Insulating Properties of Styrofoam Boxes used for Transporting Live Fish. Aquaculture 159:283-292

• Pauly, D., V. Christensen, J. Dalsgaard, R. Froese, F. Torres Jr. 1998. Fishing down marine food webs. Science 279:860-863 PDF

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. 1998. FishBase 98. Concepts, design and data sources. (with 2 FishBase 98 CD-ROMs). ICLARM, Manila, Philippines, 293 p.

• Pauly, D., R. Froese and V. Christensen. 1998. How pervasive is "Fishing down marine food webs": response. Science 282: 1383, November 20, 1998.

• Froese, R. 1997. FishBase, a database with key information on coral reef fishes. Proc. 8th Int. Coral Reef Sym. 2:1545-1548 PDF

• Froese, R. 1997. An algorithm for identifying misspellings and synonyms in lists of scientific names of fishes. Cybium 1(3):265-280. PDF

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. 1997. FishBase 97. Concepts, design and data sources. (with 2 FishBase 97 CD-ROMs). ICLARM, Manila, Philippines, 256 p.

• Froese, R. 1996. A data-rich approach to assess biodiversity. p. 127-136 In J.A. McNeely and S. Somchevita (eds.) Biodiversity in Asia: challenges and opportunities for the scientific community. Office of Environmental Policy and Planning, Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment, Bangkok, Thailand, 204 p. PDF

• Froese, R. 1996. Nomenclatural changes in Trawled Fishes of Southern Indonesia and Northwestern Australia. p. 217 In D. Pauly and P. Martosubroto (eds.) Baseline studies of biodiversity: the fish resources of Western Indonesia. ICLARM Stud. Rev. 23, 321 p.

• Froese, R. 1996. A computerized procedure for identifying misspellings and synonyms in checklists of fishes, p 219. In D. Pauly and P. Martosubroto (eds.) Baseline studies of biodiversity: the fish resources of Western Indonesia. ICLARM Stud. Rev. 23, 321 p.

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. 1996. FishBase 96. Concepts, design and data sources. (with FishBase 96 CD-ROM). ICLARM, Manila, Philippines, 179 p.

• Froese. R., S.M. Luna and E.C. Capuli. 1996. Checklist of marine fishes of Indonesia, compiled from published literature, p. 217-275. In D. Pauly and P. Martosubroto (eds.) Baseline studies of biodiversity: the fish resources of Western Indonesia. ICLARM Stud. Rev. 23, 321 p.

• Pauly, D., F.C. Gayanilo, Jr., R. Froese and V. Christensen. 1995. Software tools for management of tropical resources, p. 90-102. In G.T. Sakagawa (ed.) Assessment methodologies and management. Proceedings of the World Fisheries Congress, Theme 5. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., New Delhi.

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. 1994. FishBase as a tool for comparing the life history patterns of flatfish. Netherland J. Sea Res. 32(3/4):235-239. PDF

• Klingenberg, C. and R. Froese. 1992. A multivariate comparison of allometric growth patterns. Systematic Zoology 40(4):410-419

• Froese, R. and C. Papasissi. 1990. The use of modern relational databases for identification of fish larvae. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 6:37-45.

• Froese, R. 1988. The Relationship between body weight and loading densities in fish transport using the plastic bag method. Aquaculture and Fisheries Management 19:275-281. PDF

• Froese, R. and A. Proelß. 2009. Rebuilding stocks by 2015: will Europe meet the deadline? Poster presented at the Clusterretreat 'Future Ocean', 31 March 2009, Salzau, Germany. PPT

• Kesner‐Reyes K, Froese R, Kaschner K, Kullander S, Rius J, Rees T, Ready J, Garilao C. 2009. Creating standardized range maps for eventually all species in the oceans. Poster session presented at: e-Biosphere 09 International Conference on Biodiversity Informatics. 2009 Jun 1-3; London, UK.

• Christensen, V., Walters, C.J., Ahrens, R., Alder, J., Buszowski, J., Christensen, L.B., Cheung, W.W.L., Dunne, J., Froese, R., Karpouzi, V., Kastner, K., Kearney, K., Lai, S., Lam, V., Palomares, M.L.D., Peters-Mason, A., Piroddi, C., Sarmiento, J.L., Steenbeek, J., Sumaila, R., Watson, R., Zeller, D. and Pauly, D., 2008. Models of the world's large marine ecosystems. GEF/LME global project Promoting Ecosystem-based Approaches to Fisheries Conservation and Large Marine Ecosystems, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commissions Technical Series No. 80, iv+43 p. UNESCO. PDF

• Stern-Pirlot, A and R. Froese. 2006. Can the knowledge society turn around 500 years of overfishing? 10 p. In: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, July 11-14, 2006, Portsmouth, UK: Rebuliding Fisheries in an Uncertain Environment. Compiled by Ann L. Shriver. International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Corvallis, OR, USA, 2006. CD ROM. ISBN 0-9763432-3-1

• Froese, R. 2005. Life-history strategies of recent fishes: a meta-analysis. Habilitationsschrift [Thesis]. Christian-Albrecht University Kiel, Germany, 209 p. PDF

• Froese, R. 2005. Use of FishBase for exploring life-history strategies of fishes. p. 5-8 In K.I. Stergiou and D.V. Bobori. 3^rd Mini Symposium Fish and More. University Studio Press, Thessaloniki, Greece, 47 p. [Extended abstract]. PDF

• Froese, R. 2004. Keep fishery management simple. ICES Newsletter 41:9-10 PDF

• Froese, R., D. Lloris and S. Opitz. 2004. The need to make scientific data publicly available – concerns and possible solutions. p. 268-271 In M.L.D. Palomares, B. Samb, T. Diouf, J.M. Vakily and D. Pauly (eds.) Fish Biodiversity: Local studies as basis for global inferences. ACP-EU Fisheries Research Report 14, 283 p. PDF

• Froese, R. and A. Sampang. 2004. Taxonomy and biology of seamount fishes. p. 25-31 In T. Morato and D. Pauly (eds.) Seamounts: biodiversity and fisheries. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 12(5), 78 p. [UBC Fisheries Centre, Vancouver, Canada] PDF

• Froese, R., B. Samb and M.D. Barry. 2004. An assessment of status and trends in major fisheries using three simple indicators. Poster presented at the 4th World Fisheries Congress, May 2-6, Vancouver, Canada. PPT

• Froese, R., F.A. Bisby and K.L. Wilson. Editors. 2003. Species 2000 & ITIS catalogue of life 2003: indexing the world's known species. CD-ROM, Species 2000, Los Baños, Philippines. WEB

• Froese, R. and K. Kesner-Reyes. 2002. Impact of fishing on the abundance of marine species. ICES CM 2002/L:12, 15 p. DOC

• Froese, R. and C.V. Garilao. 2002. An annotated checklist of the elasmobranches of the South China Sea, with some global statistics on elasmobranch biodiversity, and an offer to taxonomists. p. 82-85 In S.L. Fowler, T.M. Reed and F.A. Dipper (eds.) Elasmobranch biodiversity, conservation and management: proceedings of the international seminar and workshop, Sabah, Malaysia. July 1997. IUCN SSC Shark Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK, 258 p.

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. 2002. FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. http://www.fishbase.org/

• Froese, R. and F.A. Bisby. Editors. 2002. Species 2000 & ITIS catalogue of life: indexing the world's known species. CD-ROM, Species 2000, Los Baños, Philippines.

• Froese, R. 2001. Ten years of FishBase. EC Fisheries Cooperation Bulletin 14(1-4):13

• Froese, R. 2001. The FishBase information system: key features and approaches. p. 36-38 In E. Feoli and C. Nauen (eds.) Proceedings of the INCO-DEV International Workshop on Information Systems for Policy and Technical Support in Fisheries and Aquaculture. Los Baños, Philippines, 5-7 June 2000. Brussels, ACP-EU Fish. Res. Rep. (8): 135 p.

• Froese, R., U. Piatkowski, S. Garthe and D. Pauly. 2001. Comparing the North Sea with the Caribbean? ICES CIEM Newsletter 38:24-25. PDF

• Froese, R., U. Piatkowski, S. Garthe and D. Pauly, D. 2001. A preliminary comparison of the trophic structure of some large marine ecosystems. ICES C.M. 2001/T:07. PDF

• Froese, R. and F.A. Bisby. Editors. 2000. Species 2000 catalogue of life: indexing the world's known species. CD-ROM, Species 2000, Los Baños, Philippines.

• Froese, R., E. Capuli and M.C. Rañola. 2000. Challenges to taxonomic information management: how to deal with changes in scientific names. p. 3-10 In Hideyuki Shimizu (ed.) Global environmental researches on biological and ecological aspects. Center for Global Environmental Research, Tsukuba, Japan, 84 p. PDF

• Pauly, D., V. Christensen, R. Froese and M.L. Palomares. 2000. Fishing down aquatic food webs. American Scientist 88:46-51.

• Pauly, D., R. Froese and M.L.D. Palomares. A draft guide to learning and teaching ichthyology using the FishBase information system. http://www.fishbase.org/Fish_On_Line.htm (version of January 2000).

• Froese, R. 1998. The 1997 United Waterbodies Conference ‘Save our Waterworld’: some observations concerning fish biodiversity. FishBytes 4(1): Special Insert, 3 p. DOC

• Vakily, J.M., R. Froese, M.L.D. Palomares and D. Pauly. 1997a. A European Union project to strengthen fisheries and biodiversity management in African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries. NAGA, the ICLARM Quarterly, 20(1):4-7.

• Vakily, J.M., R. Froese, M.L.D. Palomares and D. Pauly. 1997b. Fisheries and biodiversity management: how can ACP countries meet the challenge? EC Bull. 10(1):4-8.

• Cabanban, A., E. Capuli, R. Froese and D. Pauly. 1996. An Annotated Checklist of Philippine Flatfish: Ecological Implications. Presented at the Third International Symposium on Flatfish Ecology, 2-8 November 1996, Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), Texel, The Netherlands. ICLARM Contribution No. 1321. PDF

• Villwock, W., R. Froese, U. Sienknecht and L. Agustin. 1996. The development of a tilapia strain registry as part of FishBase (Poster). p. 553. In R.S.V. Pullin, J. Lazard, M. Legendre, J.B. Amon-Kothias and D. Pauly (eds.) The Third International Symposium on Tilapia in Aquaculture. ICLARM Conf. Proc. 41, 575 p. PDF

• Froese, R. and M.L. Palomares. 1995. FishBase as part of an Oceania biodiversity information system, p. 341-348. In J.E. Maragos, M.N.A. Peterson, L.G. Eldrege, J.E. Bardach and H.F. Takeuchi (eds.) Marine and coastal biodiversity in the tropical island Pacific region. Vol. 1. Species systematics and information management priorities. 424 p. PDF

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. 1995. FishBase, a biological database on fish. Concepts, design and data sources. ICLARM, Manila, Philippines, 146 p.

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. 1995. EC Project reviewed in Nature (Un projet de la Commission Européenne analysé dans Nature). EC Fisheries Cooperation Bulletin 8(3):4-7.

• Froese, R. 1994. ReefBase: a global database of coral reef systems and their resources, p. 52-54. In J.L. Munro and P.E. Munro (eds.) The management of coral reef resource systems. ICLARM Conf. Proc. 44. PDF

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly. 1994. A strategy and a structure for a database on aquatic biodiversity. p. 209-220 In J-L. Wu, Y. Hu, and E.F. Westrum, Jr. (eds.). Data Sources in Asian-Oceanic Countries; DSAO, Taipei/CODATA, Paris. PDF

• Palomares, M.L.D. and R. Froese. 1994. FishBase, a data source with key information of Indo-Pacific fishes. p. 221-227 In J-L. Wu, Y. Hu, and E.F. Westrum, Jr. (eds.). Data Sources in Asian-Oceanic Countries; DSAO, Taipei/CODATA, Paris.

• Froese, R. and D. Pauly, Editors. 1994. FishBase User's Manual. ICLARM Software 7, pag. var.

• Coronado, G. and R. Froese. 1993. MAPPER, a low-level geographic information system. NAGA, The ICLARM Quarterly,16(4):43-45

• Froese, R. 1993. 1993 Report of the Study Group on FishBase. ICES C.M. 1993/L:6: 8 p.

• Froese, R., C.B. Binohlan, R.N. Cada, E.E. Capuli and S.M. Luna. 1993. FishBase, a biological database with data on growth, mortality, diet composition, and morphology of coral reef fishes. Abstract. p. 997 In:R.H. Richmond (ed.) Proceedings of the Seventh International Coral Reef Symposium, University of Guam Press, Guam.

• Pauly, D., M.L.D. Palomares and R. Froese. 1993. Some prose on a database of indigenous knowledge on fish. Indigenous Knowledge & Development Monitor 1(1):26-27.

• Weber, W. and R. Froese. 1993. Synopsis of biological data on cod (Gadus morhua L.) in the Baltic Sea using the FishBase format. ICES C.M. 1993/J:29:114 p.

• Agustin, L., R. Froese, A. Eknath and R.S.V. Pullin. 1992. Documentation of genetic resources for aquaculture - the role of FishBase. p. 63-68 In D. Penman, N. Roongrati and B. McAndrew (eds.) International Workshop on Genetics in Aquaculture and Fisheries Management. ASEAN-EEC Aquaculture Development and Coordination Programme, Bangkok, Thailand.

• Froese, R. 1992. 1992 Progress report on FishBase. ICES C.M. 1992/L:10: 6 p.

• Froese, R. and C.C. Friess. 1992. Synopsis of biological data on Platichthys flesus (L.), ICES Sub-division 24, using the FishBase data format. ICES C.M.1992/J:39: 25 p.

• Froese, R., M.L.D. Palomares and D. Pauly. 1992. Draft user's manual of FishBase. Software 7. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management, Manila, Philippines. 56 p.

• Froese, R. and O. Rechlin. 1992. Synopsis of biological data on Clupea harengus (L.), ICES assessment units 22 and 24, using the FishBase data format. ICES C.M. 1992/J:40

• Pauly, D. and R. Froese. 1992. FishBase, base de datos computarizada sobre los peces: uso potencial para Américana Latina. Jaina 3(4):11-13.

• Froese, R. 1991a. Progress report on FishBase, the global Biological Database on Living Aquatic Resources. ICES C.M. 1991/L:8: 11 p.

• Froese, R. 1991b. The use of shape for classifying fish into ecological groups. ICES C.M. 1991/G:8: 11 p. PDF

• Pauly, D. and R. Froese. 1991. FishBase: assembling information on fish. NAGA 14(4): 10-11.

• Reichow, D., C. Larglader, Ch. Klingenberg, C. Clemensen, R. Froese and B. Ueberschär. The use of multivariate morphometrics to determine the nutritional condition of marine fish larvae. ICES C.M. 1991/L:15: 9 p.

• Welsch, W., K.-G. Barthel, R. Froese, B. Hermann, J. Lenz, S. Mees, D. Schnack and U. Waller. 1991. A high-speed video recording system for in-situ studies on small-scale distribution of zooplankton and ichthyoplankton: preliminary results on the distribution of plankton in the Bornholm Basin (Central Baltic). ICES C.M. 1991/L:82: 12 p.

• Pauly, D. and R. Froese. 1991. The FishBase Project ... or how scattered information on fish can be assembled and made useful for research and development/ Le Projet FishBase ... ou comment l'information dispersé sur le poisson peut être rassemblé et rendue utilisable pour la recherche et le développement. EC Fisheries Cooperation Bulletin, Dec. 1991:1-6, Commission of the European Communities, DG VIII/D/5, Brussels, Belgium.

• Achenbach, I. and R. Froese 1990. Presentation of a database system for information on and diagnosis of fish diseases. ICES C.M.1990/F:72: 13 p. PDF

• Froese, R. 1990. Growth strategies of fish larvae. ICES C.M. 1990/L:91: 20 p. PDF

• Froese, R. 1990. Presentation of a biological data base for species of current or future importance to aquaculture or fisheries. ICES C.M. 1990/L:92: 6 p. PDF

• Froese, R. 1990. [Modern Methods for the identification of Fish larvae]. Doctorate thesis, Hamburg University, 260 p. [in German].

• Froese, R. 1990. FishBase: An information system to support fisheries and aquaculture Research. Fishbyte 8(3): 21-24.

• Froese, R., I. Achenbach, and C. Papasissi. 1990. Computer-aided approaches to identification. III (Conclusion): modern databases. Fishbyte 8(2): 25-27.

• Froese, R., K.-G. Barthel, W. Welsch, M. Rolke, C. Schubert, B. Hermann, S. Mees, D. Schnack, and J. Lenz. 1990. Development of an underwater video system for recording of ichthyoplankton and zooplankton. ICES C.M.1990/L:90: 5 p. PDF

• Papasissi, C. and R. Froese. 1990. Modern relational databases for the identification of fish larvae of the Mediterranean Sea. Rapp. Comm. int. Mer Medit. 32(1): 307.

• Froese, R. 1989. The use of video-based measurements in connection with discriminant functions for identification of fish larvae (Abstract). Rapp. P.-v. R‚un. Cons. int. Explor. Mer, 191: 478.

• Froese, R. 1989. Computer-aided approaches to identification. II. Numerical taxonomy. Fishbyte 7(3): 25-28.

• Froese, R., B. Acosta, F. Gayanilo, S.M. Luna and M.L. Soriano. 1989. ICLARM Fish Database Project: Report II. ICLARM FishBase Project Document No. 2, April 1989: 197 p.

• Froese, R., W. Schöfer, A. Röpke, U. Piatkowski, D. Schnack. 1989. Computer-aided approaches to identification. I. Expert systems. Fishbyte 7(2): 18-19.   PDF

• Froese, R. and C. Papasissi 1989. The use of modern relational databases for identification of fish larvae. ICES C.M. 1989/L:12: 13 p.  PDF

• Froese, R. 1988. The use of quadratic discriminant functions in connection with video-based measurements for identification of fish larvae. ICES C.M. 1988/L:11: 8 p.

• Froese, R., F. Gayanilo and M.L. Soriano. 1988. ICLARM Fish Database Project: Report I. ICLARM FishBase Project Document No. 1, December 1988: 160 p.

• Froese, R. 1987. The Maintenance of Aquatic Organisms under Prolonged Weightless Conditions (Aquaspace), Technical Translation, European Space Agency ESA-TT-988, [original version (1985) in German].

• Froese, R. 1987. Long-term studies on the growth, metabolism and reproduction of fish under conditions of approximate weightlessness. Technical Translation, European Space Agency ESA-TT-1083:34-42 [original version in German].

• Froese, R. and W. Schöfer. 1987. Computer-aided identification of fish larvae. ICES C.M. 1987/L:23: 10 p.

• Froese, R. 1986. How to transport live fish in plastic bags. INFOFISH Marketing Digest, (86)4:35-36.

• Froese, R. 1985. [Transport conditions of live fish and experiments on how to improve them.] MS thesis, Kiel University [in German].

• Froese, R. 1985. Improved fish transport in plastic bags. ICLARM Newsletter, 8(4):8-9.

• Fischkonsum der Zukunft: die Fischsituation ändern, aber wie? Contribution as panellist at the AIESEC public discussion event, CAU, Kiel, 13 November 2009.

• Fisch kaputt: Europäisches Fischereimanagement. Invited presentation at the Online Ringvorlesung: Europa und Nachhaltigkeit (10 German Universities connected online), Kiel, CAU, 12 November 2009 PPT

• B_msy is fine. Invited presentation at the Science & Policy workshop, Pew Fellows Meeting, Sebasco, Maine, USA, 18 October 2009. PPT

• The Failure of the Common Fisheries Policy. Invited presentation at the Common Fisheries Policy Roundtable, Pew Fellows Meeting, Sebasco, Maine, USA, 17 October 2009. PPT

• Fisch kaputt: Ursachen der weltweiten Überfischung. Invited lecture at the Kulturkreis Schwentinetal, Schwentinetal, Germany, 28 September 2009. PPT

• Solutions to the global fisheries crisis. Contribution as panellist at the Managing Marine Resources Session of the Global Economic Symposium, Plön Castle, Germany, 10 September 2009.

• Status of FishBase in 2009. Invited presentation at the Mini-Symposium “Darwin, Names and Databases”, FAO, Rome, 9 September 2009 PPT

• Growth of fishes in relation to reproduction and oxygen consumption. Presentation at MASY meeting in Kiel, Germany, on 17 July 2009 PPT

• Über den Zustand der Bestände von Dorsch, Hering und Sprotte in der westlichen Ostsee. Invited presentation at 7. Fischereigespräch, Kiel, 07 July 2009, PPT

• Data Graveyard, Data Warehouse or Public Information System? Invited presentation at the 2^nd Meeting of the DFG working Group on biodiversity Data, 8-9 June 2009, Berlin PPT

• FishBase. Invited presentation at the e-Biosphere Conference 09, London, UK, 1-3 June 2009 PPT

• Species Information Systems. Invited presentation at the EPBRS Meeting World Biodiversity and European Taxonomy, Prague, Czech Republic, 19-22 May 2009 PPT

• Revisiting Stock-Recruitment Relationships. Invited presentation at the Mini-Workshop on Fisheries: Ecology, Economics and Policy, CAU, Kiel, Germany 24^th February 2009. PPT

• AquaMaps: Mapping Marine Biodiversity. Keynote presentation at the Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium, NRM, Stockholm, Sweden, 3rd December 2008. PPT

• From FishBase to SpeciesBase. Keynote presentation at the Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium, NRM, Stockholm, Sweden, 1st December 2008. PPT

• Fisch kaputt: Ursachen der weltweiten Überfischung. Presentation at the 'Children's University', 18 November 2008, CAU Audimax, Kiel, Germany. PPT Video

• Fishes under Threat: an Analysis of the Fishes in the 2007 IUCN Red List. Invited presentation at the 2008 FishBase Symposium, 3^rd November 2008, NRM, Stockholm, Sweden. PPT

• Recent Trends in Global Fisheries. Invited presentation at the 2^nd Future Ocean Symposium, 8 September 2008, Kiel, Germany. PPT

• Ecological Impacts of Current Quota Systems. Invited presentation at the workshop on Marine and Coastal Resources: Risks and Law, 7 September 2008, Kiel, Germany. PPT

• AquaMaps: Mapping Marine Biodiversity. Presentation at the FishBase Symposium, 1^st September 2008, Yellow Sea Research Institute, Qingdao, China PPT

• Towards a global species information system: progress in the Oceans. Invited presentation at the EC-Side Event at the Convention of Biological Diversity, 19 May 2008, Bonn, Germany. PPT

• Weltweite Überfischung, was kann der Handel tun? Invited presentation at Hauptverband des deutschen Einzelhandels (HDE), 22 April 2008, Berlin, Germany. PPT

• Ursachen und Lösungen für die weltweite Überfischung. Invited presentation at the 28^th Annual Meeting of the Gesellschaft für Informatik in der Landwirtschaft, 10 March 2008, Kiel, Germany.

• Situation der Fischerei, wo gibt es nachhaltigen Fisch? Invited presentation for Kaufland Management, 28 February 2008, Heilbronn, Germany. PPT

• AquaMaps for GBIF. Presentation given at a meeting to explore options for partnership between AquaMaps and GBIF, 30 January 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark, GBIF HQ. PPT

• Fisch im Handy. Presentation [in German] at the IFM-GEOMAR press conference for the launching of the mobile seafood guide www.fischimhandy.de tool, 13 December 2007, Kiel Germany PPT

• Key Components and Urgent Needs of the Global Species Information System. Presentation at the first GSIS workshop, 10-11 December 2007, Kiel, Germany PPT

• Creating a Marine Atlas with Maps for All Species of the Oceans. Presentation at the 2007 Pew Fellows meeting, 3 December 2007, Morro Bay, CA, USA. PPT

• Fisch kaputt: Ursachen und Lösungen für die weltweite Überfischung. Public lecture at the Night of the Profs, 23 November 2007, Christian Albrecht University, Kiel, Germany PPT

• Biologie und Fischerei von Dorsch, Hering, Sprotte und Scholle in der Ostsee. Einführungsvortrag zur Podiumsdiskussion, Wirtschaftsrat der CDU Schleswig-Holstein, 24 September 2007, Kiel, Germany. PPT

• Goodbye K, Welcome M: The Interrelationship between Life Span, Growth and Reproduction. Plenary Keynote at the XXII European Congress of Ichthyology, 10 September 2007, Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia. PPT

• New Initiatives towards a Global Species Information System. Invited presentation at the XXII European Congress of Ichthyology, 9 September 2007, Cavtat, Dubrovnik, Croatia. PPT

• FishBase: Global Databank and Tool. Invited presentation at the Conference on Research in Aquatic Science Disciplines, 9 June 2007, Neu Wulmstorf, Germany. PPT

• FishBase: Lessons Learned. Invited presentation at The One Million Species Catalogue of Life Symposium, 29 March 2007, Reading, UK. PPT

• The Research in FishBase. Invited presentation at the Chinese Academy of Fisheries Science (CAFS), 27 February 2007, Beijing, China. PPT

• Life-history Strategies of Fishes. Invited presentation, Seminar Series of the Marine Science Institute, University of the Philippines, 22 February 2007, Quezon City, Philippines. PPT

• Recent Trends in Global Fisheries. Invited presentation. SEARCA Seminar Series, 13 February 2007, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. PPT

• Life-history Strategies of Elasmobranchs. Key note given at the 10^th Science Conference of the European Elasmobranch Association, 11-12^th November 2006, Hamburg, Germany. PPT

• Überfischung: ein weltweites Problem. Presentation at the press conference given by Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg at the occasion of the launch of the Fish-O-Meter, a ruler to identify immature fishes. 31 May 2006, Hamburg, Germany. PPT

• Lessons learned in the development of FishBase. Invited presentation at the meeting of the International Committee of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), 22 May 2006, Los Baños, Laguna Philippines. PPT

• The Science in FishBase: Putting a Huge Database to Work. Invited presentation given at the Symposium Thinking Big: A Global Look at Fisheries Science. 2^nd May 2006, Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver, Canada. PPT

• The Knowledge Society in Aquatic Biodiversity: Fishes of the World in the Computer. Invited presentation at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 17 February 2006, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. PPT

• Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management. Presentation given at the Worldfish Seminar Series, 15 December 2005, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. PPT

• Life-history strategies of fishes and their relevance for ecosystem-based fisheries management. Key note given at DWK/BFAFi-Workshop on Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management, 28 November 2005, Hamburg, Germany. PPT

• Life-History Strategies of Recent Fishes. Invited presentation given at the 3^rd Mini Symposium ‘Fish and More’, 31 August 2005, Thessaloniki, Greece. PPT

• Gap Analysis: What Do We Not Know about Indo-Pacific Fishes. Plenary key note given at the 7^th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, 16-20 May 2005, Taipei, Taiwan. PPS

• Deepsea Trawling: Blind Destruction of Last Frontier. Invited presentation given at a ‘parliamentary lunch’ meeting about the environmental impact of deepsea trawling, 27 April 2005, Berlin, Germany. PPS

• Unexpected Mega-Users of ICES Data. Short presentation given at the second meeting of the ICES Study Group on Integrated Data Management, Lisbon, 11-13 April 2005. PPT

• SpeciesBanks: Dreams and Realities. Key note given at the GBIF workshop “Building SpeciesBanks: How Shall we Shape the Future?” Amsterdam, 2-4 March 2005. PPT

• FishBase: Lessons Learned in the Design, Data Management and User Analysis. Presentation given at the Ocean Biodiversity Informatics Conference, 29 November – 1 December 2004, Katholische Akademie, Hamburg, Germany. PPT

• State of the Marine Environment. Opening key note at the Conference on Sustainable EU Fisheries: Addressing the Environmental Challenges, 8-9 November 2004, European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium. PPS

• Fitness Strategies of Recent Fishes: a Meta-Analysis. Presentation given at the XI European Congress of Ichthyology, 6-10 September 2004, Tallinn, Estonia. PPT

• Why Fish? An Example of Successful Usage of the Internet. Invited presentation given at Migratory Species: Linking Ecosystems and Disciplines. Workshop on behalf of the 25^th anniversary of the Bonn Convention on Conservation of Migratory Species. Berlin, Germany, 22-23 June 2004. PPT

• FishBase & Sturgeons: Gap Analysis and Call for Cooperation. General Assembly of the World Sturgeon Conservation Society (WSCS), Neu Wulmstorf, Germany, 17 January 2004 . PPT

• FishBase: Recent Advances and Options for Collaboration. FishBase Symposium 2003: Mapping Global Fish Biodiversity – the Baltic Context. Stockholm, Sweden 20-21 November 2003 (Keynote speaker). PPT

• Creating an Atlas with Maps for All Species of the Oceans. Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation Annual Meeting. Blaine, Washington, USA, 14-19 October 2003. PPT

• Why Do Fish Grow Forever? Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, 20 October 2003. PPT

• FishBase: Recent Advances and Options for Collaboration. 21^st Meeting of the European Union of Aquarium Curators. Vienna, Austria, 30^th September – 5^th October 2003. PPT

• Fischen wir unsere Meere leer? [Are the Oceans Emptied by Fishing?], Volkshochschule Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven, 25 March 2003 PPT

• FishBase – an Internet Gateway to Information about Fish. EURASLIC 10: Smooth sailing: Crossing the Boundaries in Aquatic Sciences Information Management, Kiel, 8 May 2003 PPTLife History Strategies of Fishes: A New Approach and some Preliminary Results. WorldFish Seminar Series, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, 4 February 2004.

• The FishBase Information System: Current Coverage of Russian Biodiversity and Opportunities for Collaboration. International Symposium on Biodiversity of Species and Ecosystems. St. Petersburg, Russia, 1-4 December 2003 (Keynote speaker). PPT

• Verschiebungen in der Fischfauna infolge einer zu intensiven Fischerei [Shifts in species composition because of overfishing]. Conference 'Warnsignale aus dem Meer' [Alarm Signals from the Oceans], Hamburg, 31 March – 2 April 2003 PPT

• FishBase as a Tool for Tropical Fisheries Biologists. World Fish Center, Los Baños, Philippines, 22 January 2003. PPT

• FishBase as a Tool for Tropical Fisheries Biologists. Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie, Bremen, Germany, 12 December 2002. PPT

• Recent Advances with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). Symposium: Key Innovations in Biodiversity Informatics. Indaiatuba, Brazil, 21-22 October 2002. PPT

• Twelve Years of FishBase: Lessons Learned. Invited plenary presentation at the Conference on Biodiversity Informatics - What is it, how can we deal with it, and for what may we use it. Odense, Denmark, 9 August 2002. PPT

• Twelve Years of FishBase: Lessons Learned. Invited plenary presentation at the 3rd Global Taxonomy Workshop: Towards Sustainable Development, Partnership for Demand-Driven Taxonomic Capacity Building, Bionet International, Pretoria, South Africa, 9 July 2002.  PPT

• Trophic Signatures of Marine Organisms in the Mediterreanean as Compared with Other Ecosystems. Invited presentation at the 9th International Congress on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions, 22-25 May 2002, Thessaloniki, Greece PPT

• Biogeographic Modelling. Meereskundliches Kolloquium, Institut für Meereskunde, Kiel, Germany, 10 May 2002. PPT

• The 2002 Version of the Catalogue of Life. Invited presentation at the workshop: Towards a Catalogue of Life, Royal Botanical Garden, Sydney, Australia, 15 March 2002. PPT

• Towards a Global Species Information System: Recent Developments. ICLARM Seminar, Los Baños, Philippines, 5 March 2002.

• Recent advances with the Catalogue of Life. Invited presentation given at the Species 2000 Asia Oceania Forum, 14 February 2002, Kyoto, Japan. PPT

• Links to value-added data resources - the example of FishBase. Invited presentation at the Workshop on Exchange Format for Species related Data, ATCC/NSF/FAPESP, 16-18 January 2002, Miami, USA

• The dynamics of overfishing. Invited presentation at the Bundesforschungsanstalt für Fischerei, Hamburg, Germany, 10 December 2001.  PPT

• The dynamics of overfishing. EC Expert Meeting on New Concepts and Indicators in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Brussels, Belgium, 4-5 December 2001.  PPT

• Trophic Signatures of Elasmobranchs: a Comparison between Tropical and Temperate Ecosystems. 5th Annual Science Meeting of the European Elasmobranch Association (EEA), 20-21.10.2001, Kiel, Germany PPT

• A preliminary comparison of the trophic structure of some large marine ecosystems. 2001 Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES). Oslo, Norway, 26-29 September, 2001. PPT

• About the aging of scientific names. 10th European Congress of Ichthyology (ECI). Prague, Czech Republic, 3-7.9.2001. PPT

• FishBase as a model for species information systems. Biodiversity Informatics and the Catalogue of Life Workshop, Reading, UK, 5-7 June 2001.

• A Preliminary Comparison of the Trophic Structure of some Large Marine Ecosystems. Workshop on Aquatic Food Webs, 26-28 March 2001, Plön, Germany PPT

• Presentation of the first Catalogue of Life CD-ROM. Catalogue of Life Symposium, 2 March 2001, Paris, France PPT

• 2010 – Foundations for management plans for Natura 2000 areas in the German EEZ. Funded by Bundesamt für Naturschutz, 2010-2011.

• 2010 – Winners and Losers in a Warming Ocean. Funded by Excellence Cluster Future Ocean, Kiel. January – December 2010.

• 2009 – Nemo TP 7: Wachstum bei Fischen unter Berücksichtigung von Gonadenreifung und Sauerstoffbedarf. Funded by Land Schleswig-Holstein, January 2009 – December 2011.

• 2008 – Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt. Species synopses for 30 fish species of the North Sea and the Baltic. Funded by Bundesamt für Naturschutz. November 2008-June 2010.

• 2008 – Alterative Scenarios for European Fisheries Management, with Alexander Proelß and Till Requate. Started in late 2008, funded for one year from Future Oceans Cluster, Kiel.

• 2007 – Ocean Summits: Advanced Ecosystem Modelling for Ocean Summits on Sustainable Management (with Villy Christensen). Waiting for a suitable call.

• 2006 – SpeciesBase: A Global Information System on All Life on Earth. Waiting for a suitable call.

• 2005 – SPORTFISH: Mobilizing the contribution of European anglers to the conservation and sustainable use of living aquatic resources in Europe (with Bernd Ueberschär). This was incorporated in the PICOS project which started in 2008, running for 3 years.

• 2005 – AquaSpecies: Creating a FishBase-like information system for all aquatic organisms (with Kristin Kaschner). Workshop in May 2006 in Los Baños, Philippines.

• 2004 – INCOFISH: Reconciling Multiple Demands in the Coastal Zone with Special Emphasis on Fisheries (with Silvia Opitz). With eleven work packages around coastal zone management. Funded with €4.9 million by the European Union for three years. Started in May 2005. Was declared a 'star' project by EC officers and selected among the 50 best FP6 projects and 5 best INCO projects.

• 2003 – Creating a Marine Atlas (MARA) with Maps for All Species of the Oceans. Pew Grant NEA03-01, US$150,000 for three years. Started in September 2003.

• 2003 – EUROCAT: Contributing data on fish to the Species 2000 Europa Project. € 17,000 for 3 years. Started in February 2003.

• 2002 – ECOFISH: Enhancing the Outreach of Aquatic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research in Support of the Transition Towards Global Sustainability, Accompanying measure funded by the European Union (ICA4-CT2002-50001) for two years, €295,000. Started in July 2003.

• 2002 - Improving access to FishBase in Chinese (with Kwang Tsao Shao and Boris Fabres). Funded by Government of Taiwan, US$ 100,000 for two years, starting in mid 2002.

• 2001 - Integrating FishBase with the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). US$ 60,000 from Sloan Foundation, for 2 years, starting 1 January 2002.

• 2001 - Multi-lingual Access to Biodiversity Information. Work package under the European Network of Biodiversity Information, accepted by the European Commission in mid 2002. Will start in March 2003 (243,000 Euro for 2 years).

• 2001 - ECOFISH, an accompanying measure organizing 5 expert workshops around FishBase and Ecopath, submitted to the European Commission in 2001 and accepted in 2002. Started: July 2002 (298,000 Euros for 2 years).

• 2000 - Strengthening Fisheries and Biodiversity Management in ACP Countries (II) (with Boris Fabres). A follow up to the successful execution of Phase I of this project (see below). The draft was accepted at a meeting in Brussels in March 2000, and 27 ACP countries had submitted formal requests for implementation as of May 2002. Feasibility study conducted by FAO / SIFR in 2002.

• 1999 - Census of Marine Fishes (with W.N. Eschmeyer). A collaborative project between the California Academy of Sciences and ICLARM under the Census of Marine Life program to establish an authoritative list of all marine fishes, and to make as many fish collections as possible searchable through that list. Received 0.5 million US$ funding and started in June 2000, duration of two years.

• 1998 - LarvalBase, a Global Information System on Fish Larvae (with Bernd Ueberschär). A collaborative project between ICLARM and the Institut of Marine Research in Kiel, to capture relevant information on fish larvae and make it available through a special section of FishBase. Duration 3 years, total of DM 690,000, funded by BMZ/GTZ. The project started in April 1999.

• 1997 - Inclusion of data from the Australian Fisheries Resources Atlas into FishBase. Funded in January 1998 by the Australian Bureau of Resource Sciences with $22,000.

• 1996 - LarvalBase Feasibility Study (with Bernd Ueberschär). Proposal to complement the information on fish larvae in FishBase. A feasibility study of about 100,000 US$ was funded by BMZ/GTZ in 1998, for a duration of one year.

• 1996 - Fishes for the Future (with Roger Pullin). A large proposal to assess, together with IUCN and other partners, the status of threat of all freshwater fishes of the world. The proposal was developed together with Roger Pullin and was presented to donors in 1997 and 1998. Three million dollars, duration 3 years. Still searching for a donor. May be broken down into regional proposals.

• 1992 - Draft proposal to develop ReefBase (see Froese 1994), a large database on coral reefs, was accepted by ICLARM's Research Committee and recommended by the Workshop on Coral Reefs in Townsville, Australia in 1992. Sue Wells wrote the full proposal and the Commission of the European Community later supported ReefBase with a first grant of 450,000 ECU. The Netherlands also supported the project for one year. ICLARM and various other donors supported it thereafter and it was still ongoing in 2002.

• 1992 - Strengthening of fisheries and biodiversity management in ACP countries, through FishBase and other tools. This proposal of 5 MECU to the European Development Fund required four years of continuous follow-up, mainly to gain the support of ACP countries and the signatures of the Regional Authorizing Officers. It finally started in December 1996 for a duration of four years.

• 1990 - Implementation of FishBase. This project was supported by a grant of 300,000 ECU by the Commission of the European Community for the first two years, 1990-1992. It was extended for another two years with a grant of 500,000 ECU (1992-1994), and a final year (1995) with a grant of ECU 290,000. In 1996 the project was supported from ICLARM core funds. Thereafter it was supported as part of the EC-ACP Project, then by the LarvalBase and Census of Marine Fishes projects (see above).

• 1989 - Design of a large relational database (FishBase) on fish biology (morphology, ecology, fishery, aquaculture, genetics, diseases, etc.) at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM), Manila, Philippines. This consultancy was supported by a grant of 50,000 ECU by the Commission of the European Community.

• 1989 - Development of a towed video-system for in-situ recording of plankton and fish larvae at the Institute of Marine Science (IfM), Kiel University. This project was funded from the EUROMAR budget in the framework of the European EUREKA initiative. It involved collaboration with the Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie in Martinsried, Germany, and another European industrial partner, Osborne, in Aberdeen, Scotland. The project was extended twice and was still on-going in 1996, with a successful prototype deployed by IfM.

• 1986 - Development of computer-aided methods (Expert Systems, Numerical Taxonomy, Image Analysis, databases) for identification of fish larvae and fish eggs. This project was funded by the Arbeitsamt Kiel and hosted by the Institute of Marine Research, Kiel. The project was extended twice and lasted altogether 27 month.

• 1985 - The Maintenance of Aquatic Organisms under Prolonged Weightless Conditions (Aquaspace) (see Froese 1987a). A pilot phase of this project was funded in 1985 by the German Bundesministerium für Forschung and Technik (BMFT). The project was subsequently funded in 1987 by the BMFT, under the leadership of Prof. V. Blüm, Ruhruniversität Bochum, Germany. In 1997 it involved 4 German, 3 US and 1 Russian Universities. A mini-module named C.E.B.A.S. was launched in a Space Shuttle mission in May 1998 (Blüm et al. 1997, Rubin 1/97:6-12).

• FishBase Project Leader (1990 - 2000) and Coordinator (2001 - present)

• Species 2000 Project Management Team (1995 - 2003), member of Sp2000 thereafter

• OBIS International Committee (2001 - 2006)

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Applied Ichthyology, (1992 - present)

• Member of the Editorial Board of Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, (2003 - present)

• Pew Fellow (2003 – present)

• Fellow of the Kiel Earth Institute (2009 – present)

• Société Française d'Ichtyologie (1998 - present)

• European Ichthyological Society (2001 - present)

• AquaMaps: 4^th Programmers' workshop, 12 December 2007, Kiel Germany (with Crispina Binohlan).

• Organizing the European Contribution to the Global Species Information System (GSIS). 10-11 December 2007, Kiel, Germany (with Crispina Binohlan)

• INCOFISH Mid-Term Meeting, 12-14 March 2007, La Paz, Mexico (with Francisco Arreguin Sanchez, Silvia Opitz and Crispina Binohlan).

• Maps for All Marine Species. 3^rd Programmers’ workshop, 1-3 October 2006, in Kiel, Germany (with Kristin Kaschner).

• Maps for All Marine Species. 2^nd Programmers’ workshop, 2-3 December 2005, in Kiel, Germany (with Kristin Kaschner).

• INCOFISH Start-up Workshop, 4-7 October 2005, in Kiel, Germany (with Silvia Opitz and Crispina Binohlan).

• Maps for All Marine Species. 1st Programmers’ workshop, 26-28 October 2004, in Kiel, Germany (with Kristin Kaschner).

• ‘ECOFISH Summary Workshop’, Kiel, Germany, 23-26 May 2004 (with Silvia Opitz)

• Expert workshop on 'Further Integration of FishBase and Ecopath with EcoSim.' La Paz, Mexico, 2-5 March 2004 (with Silvia Opitz)

• Expert Workshop on 'Harmonization of Aquatic Biodiversity Databases', Barcelona, Spain, 29.9. – 1.10.2003 (with Silvia Opitz)

• Expert Workshop on 'Involving the Public in Monitoring of Aquatic Biodiversity', Heraklion, Greece, 2-4 July 2003 (with Silvia Opitz)

• Expert Workshop on 'Indicators for Sustainable Fisheries Management', Dakar, Senegal,14-16 April 2003 (with Silvia Opitz)

• Expert Meeting on the Checklist of Neotropical Fishes (CLOFFSCA), Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 4 - 9 September 2000 (with Sven Kullander and Carlos Rodrigues)

• EC International Workshop on Information Systems for Policy and Technical Support in Fisheries and Aquaculture, Los Baños, Philippines, 5 - 7 June 2000 (with Enrico Feoli).

• FAO Taxonomic Workshop on Marine Organisms of the Western Central Atlantic, Belize, 9 - 16 July 1999 (with Kent Carpenter)

• International Conference on Sustainable Use of Aquatic Biodiversity: Data Tools and Collaboration, Lisbon, Portugal, 3-5 September 1998

• Databases on Indo-Pacific Fish and Fisheries. Workshop at the 5th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, 3-8 November 1997, Noumea, New Caledonia.

• Databases Relevant to Coral Reef Studies. Workshop at the 8th International Coral Reef Symposium, Panama, June 24-29, 1996 (with John McManus).

• Species 2000 First International Workshop, 10-13 March 1996, Manila, Philippines (with Frank Bisby).

• FAO Western Central Pacific Living Marine Resources Identification Guide Workshop, 1-10 October 1995, Quezon City and Bolinao, Philippines (with Kent Carpenter).

• Mortality SS 2008 PPT

• Von Bertalanffy Growth SS 2008 PPT

• Length-Weight Relationships SS 2008 PPT

• Population Dynamics Course SS 2008 DOC XLS1 XLS2 XLS3

• European Fisheries Management PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Phylogeny and Remarkable Fishes PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Size Matters PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Length-Weight Relationships PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Growth PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Sharks and Rays PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Understanding Longevity PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Death in the Sea PPT XLS

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Sex under Water PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Trends in Global Fisheries PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: History of Overfishing PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Life-history Invariants PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Zoogeographic Realms of Freshwater Fishes PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Biogeography of Marine Fishes PPT

• Biodiversity of Fishes: Summary PPT

Henning Winker, 2005, MS Thesis „Evaluation of a new method for estimating the maximum annual reproductive rate of bony fish at low population densities.“ PDF

Yury Zablotski, 2009, MS Thesis. Candidate fishes for aquaculture.

• Pew Marine Conservation Fellow, 17.10.2003

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• ... And yes, I played bass guitar in the ICLARM Band!!