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Fisheries Biology Research Guide

Fisheries Databases

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  • FishBase - database of global species on the distribution, ecology, population dynamics, reproduction, genetics, morphology and physiology of over 33,000 finfish species. You can search by common name, scientific name, by country, by ecosystem, by broad topic, or from a glossary of subject keywords.

  • CalFish (California Department of Fish and Wildlife) - California anadromous fish

  • California Aquaculture (Fred Conte)

  • California Explores the Ocean (UC San Diego and San Diego Historical Society)

  • Columbia Basin Research (University of Washington School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences)

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Evaluating Website Content

One of the biggest problems students have with using websites in their academic work is the accuracy of the content. Here are some basic ways to evaluate a website.

What does the domain name tell you?

Who wrote the page? Is there a page author listed? If there is no author, is there a company name? Is there contact information listed? If there is no one listed that takes responsibility for the page you should take that into consideration.

Here is a link to a reliable site that will help you with your evaluation:

UC Berkeley Web Evaluation Tips