LINKS
Early Life History Section (ELHS) - The largest organization of scientists studying the early life history stages of fishes. Contains contact information for researchers and information on larval fish conferences and access to their newsletter "Stages".Ecosystem & Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigation (EcoFOCI) - A cooperative research program with the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL), Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), designed to investigate causes of annual recruitment variations in fish stocks of economic importance in the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea ecosystems.
FOCI Cruise Catalog - A metadatabase that allows users to search for FOCI cruises of interest based on region, sampling gear, and/or sampling date. Search results include area of sampling, gears used, number of samples collected, and a synopsis of cruises including dominant ichthyoplankton collected.
ICLARM FishBase - The largest finfish database on the web. Contains information on the life history, ecology and identification of finfish worldwide.
ICLARM LarvalBase - A comprehensive information system on fish larvae that are relevant in the field of finfish aquaculture, combining traditional sources such as primary and “grey” literature.
Environmental Research Division - A research unit of the National Marine Fisheries Service's Southwest Fisheries Science Center (formerly the Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory) that conducts research on fishery-related effects of natural environmental variability over a broad range of scientific, management, and operational concerns of the government and the fishing industry of the United States.
North Pacific Ecosystem Metadatabase - A North Pacific ecosystem metadatabase used to locate and assemble an inventory of the extensive biological and physical data collected on the North Pacific ecosystem. The goal is to develop these data into an indexed, annotated catalog (metadatabase), and make the metadatabase available through various mechanisms.
Resource Ecology and Ecosystem Modeling life history page - This site allows users to access life history information for species inhabiting the eastern Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska management regions. An extensive review of literature was conducted to collect known life history data for species of these regions.
UW Fish Archive Database - Collection and specimen information for FOCI and other collections archived in the UW Fish Collection. Not all FOCI specimens are housed here, but most ichthyoplankton specimens from the 1970's through 1994 are available. A direct link is also provided to the records of specimens that have been deposited at the UWFC. These specimens can then be borrowed from the fish collection by contacting the collection manager, Katherine Pearson Maslenikov (pearsonk@u.washington.edu).