#FishBase CA is now updated! Our growing database now includes: 🐠 36,700 species 🗣️ 333,200 common names 📸 66,300 pictures 📚 68,500 references 🤝 2,570 collaborators 🌍 700,000 visits per month Found an issue? Let us know via Comments & Corrections. 🌐 www.fishbase.ca #OpenScience #CitizenScience

The field-based chapter of my PhD is out in @cjfas.bsky.social! 🎣 We quantified barotrauma in British Columbia rockfishes (n=352) and tested descending devices around Entrance Island. Read here: dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfa...

Sink today, swim tomorrow: barotrauma symptoms and effectiveness of descending Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.)

Rockfishes have closed swim bladders that prevent rapid gas expulsion, making them susceptible to barotrauma when captured. Although descending devices are now required for releasing non-retainable ro...

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🔉 Major FishSounds Website Update!! The beta version of the new FishSounds.net is live now and will be finalized over the next month. Most of the updates won’t necessarily be noticeable on first glance, so a few of the more consequential changes are outlined below. 🧵1/7

First fish sounds recorded in the Southern Ocean by FishSounds friend, Fannie Shabangu, et al.! doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Since our first review didn't identify any soniferous fishes from the Antarctic, we are so happy that folks are exploring this great unknown in fish #bioacoustics!

Rhyming in the cold: first evidence of soniferous fishes in the Southern Ocean

The acoustic ecology of Southern Ocean fishes remains unknown due to a lack of dedicated acoustic research on the fishes of this ocean. Passive acoustic monitoring data were collected at the South Af....

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Our @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund updates are coming along well! Here's a demo of what our recording search pages will soon look like, including the ability to switch between simple and advanced search functions as well as acoustic measurements to help with filtering!

FishSounds@fishsounds.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Just wanted to share a sneak preview of what our recording visualizations will soon look like, thanks to the support of the @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund! We'll also soon be adding new search features, data updates, and other changes, so stay tuned for more exciting news!

WATCH our Seminar videos at youtube.com/@oceans

Study suggests that releasing #pollack closer to the depths they are normally caught could improve their chances of survival by almost 25%. phys.org/news/2026-02...

Releasing pollack near catch depth may raise survival from 56% to 80%

During 2026, new legislation—the result of an agreement between the UK Government and the European Union—is planned to come into force for recreational pollack fishing that limits catches to three fis...

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Just wanted to share a sneak preview of what our recording visualizations will soon look like, thanks to the support of the @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund! We'll also soon be adding new search features, data updates, and other changes, so stay tuned for more exciting news!

📣 New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar next week! Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of soniferous fish from Audrey Looby and Brooke Vetter 🐟🐠🐡 @FishSounds.bsky.social #bioacoustics #neuroskyence #prattle 💬 🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET ✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com

Well shoot isn’t that a cute snoot on the eagle ray with some serious barbs to boot! #spottedeagleray #eagleray #stingraysofcoralcity #stingray #cutesnoot #venomousfish #elasmobranch #coral #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

Excited to share that our article is out in Frontiers for Young Minds! The peer review process with bright young scientists was a definitely highlight ✨🙂 Noisy Waters: How Sounds Affect Marine Invertebrates🪼🚢🦀🎵 Full article here: doi.org/10.3389/frym...

Noisy Waters: How Sounds Affect Marine Invertebrates

Different types of sounds affect marine animals, including invertebrates (animals without backbones) like crabs and octopuses. Invertebrates play important roles in marine ecosystems, and many of them...

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Chris Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia, is working with the Hakai Institute on laboratory tests to look at the effects of ocean acidification on several species, notes a new feature article in Business in Vancouver. Read more here:

B.C.'s oceans are turning acidic faster than once thought, finds study

Coral records reveal B.C. ocean acidity amplified 50 per cent more than previously thought, threatening a $452-million shellfish fishery

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If you're looking for more great fish sounds educational content, check out FishSounds.net/educate.js or the beautifully illustrated kids book "What Fish Are Saying" by @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social!

One of our FishSounds co-leads, Audrey Looby, recently talked to the Tumble Science Podcast for Kids and answered the question "What sounds do fish make?" 🎵🐠 Listen to find out here: www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/single-post/...

What Sounds do Fish Make? | Tumble Episode

Ever wondered what a fish sounds like? Spoiler: it’s way more interesting than “blub blub blub.” In this episode of Tumble Science Podcast for Kids, we explore the strange and hilarious noises that fi...

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🚫 End animal testing in Canada: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... Last year in Canada, over 3.7 million dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, fish and other animals were used in scientific research and toxicity testing. Animals are suffering, even though better options are available.

🐟🔊 New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....! Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!

We are incredibly grateful to WILDLABS for selecting us for this award, which will help us conduct the "boring" but critical task of adding visualizations and metadata to make recordings more easily searchable on FishSounds.net! 🎵🐠❤️

WILDLABS Community@wildlabs.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🏆Meet the winners of the Boring Fund 2025! After five weeks of careful review and deliberation, the WILDLABS team and @developer.arm.com has selected the 10 projects that will receive support for essential conservation technology work. Meet them here: wildlabs.net/article/anno...

Happy #WorldOctopusDay 🐙 Spot these incredible creatures on ONC’s subsea cameras—from BC’s coast to the deep ocean—and during our annual hashtag#ONCabyss expeditions. See them in action on SeaTube 🐙 bit.ly/4q300Q1 #KnowTheOcean #CDNsci

After a four-year investigation, a breakthrough study reveals the cause of sea star wasting disease (SSWD). A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida is the culprit behind the marine epidemic that has killed billions of sea stars since 2013. Read the study: 🔗https://tinyurl.com/4rcb3xpf

🚫 Exotic cats like servals, caracals & leopard cats don’t belong in homes. Yet, they’re still legal to breed, sell & keep in B.C.—but that could change. Tell the provincial government you support banning all exotic cats as pets. 📣 Take action: spca.bc.ca/news/speak-u...

Don't miss the opportunity to speak up for exotic cats in British Columbia!

The BC SPCA is urging British Columbians to speak up for exotic cat welfare. These are wild animals, not pets!

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🐟New Publication🔉 We found that strategies for conserving at-risk fishes in Canada rarely consider acoustics. We propose that integrating fish sonifery and noise pollution into Canadian policies would improve species management and conservation efforts. Read more at doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...!

🔉🐸🐟🦐🪲 Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!

Jack Greenhalgh@wildaudiojack.bsky.social · last yr.

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper! Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025. See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

Excited to share this new gorgeous science-informed kids book all about fish sounds! Our team is grateful for the opportunity to consult on the book and can't wait to use it during outreach events ❤️ 🐠 🔉

Kirsten Pendreigh@kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social · last yr.

Listen to WHAT FISH ARE SAYING!! 🐟🐠🦐 #fish #oceans #reefs #kidlit #nonfiction Thanks to Dr. Tim Lamont at Lancaster U for sharing this fun mix of fish sounds!

Just published: A HUGE global analysis of 416 validated passive acoustic monitoring datasets consisting of 12,343 sites led by Kevin Darras! Lots of take-homes, inc. the need for more spatio-temporal replication in freshwater habitats. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Worldwide Soundscapes: A Synthesis of Passive Acoustic Monitoring Across Realms

Aim The urgency for remote, reliable and scalable biodiversity monitoring amidst mounting human pressures on ecosystems has sparked worldwide interest in Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM), which can...

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Are you ready for Science Rendezvous on May 10? 🎉🐟 FishSounds will be there—come visit us in the Elliott Building at UVic! Join us for a day of fun activities and fascinating research. 🔗 www.sciencerendezvous.ca/event_sites/... #SciRen #SciRenYYJ #bioacoustics @uvicscience.bsky.social

Browsing our #bioacoustics recordings just got easier! We've now embedded visualizations for the almost 1000 Macaulay Library recordings we link to on FishSounds. And we're hoping to improve the rest of our recording visualizations later this year!

We're Hiring for 8 Positions!! Interested in conducting research on nature based solutions in Canada's coastal ecosystems? Blue Carbon Canada is recruiting 3 PDFs & 5 PhD students for Sept. 2025 in partnership w @wwfcanada.org www.bluecarboncanada.ca/were-recruit... Open to int'l scholars Pls repost

We're Recruiting! — Blue Carbon Canada

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We made a #bioacoustics colouring book! 🎨🐟 Download What Sound Does a Fish Make!? at fishsounds.net/educate.js for a fun at-home activity. This project features art by Sarah Jim—explore her amazing work at sarahjimstudio.com!

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🎣🔉 We will have our final FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar on Mar 7 at 9 am Pacific—all about eavesdropping on fisheries with Dr. Audrey Looby! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...