Western Washington University Western CEDAR

2014 Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (Seattle, Wash.)

May 1st, 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

The Salish Sea Ecosystem in FishBase and SeaLifeBase

Maria Lourdes D. Palomares Fisheries Centre, [email protected]

Nicolas Bailly WorldFish

Patricia Yap FIN

Daniel Pauly Fisheries Centre

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Palomares, Maria Lourdes D.; Bailly, Nicolas; Yap, Patricia; and Pauly, Daniel, "The Salish Sea Ecosystem in FishBase and SeaLifeBase" (2014). Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference. 62. https://cedar.wwu.edu/ssec/2014ssec/Day2/62

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Marine Birds and Mammals of the Salish Sea: Identifying Patterns and Causes of Change

The Salish Sea in FishBase and SeaLifeBase

MLD Palomares and N Bailly

1 May 2014

www.sealifebase.ca www.fishbase.ca Objectives of the study

• Document the marine biodiversity of the Salish Sea and its sub- ecosystems in FishBase and SeaLifeBase; • Complete this documentation at least for . The Salish Sea in FishBase and SeaLifeBase

April 2014 version 2,280 marine species assigned to the Salish Sea based on about 100 references Biological data from 165 references Compared with previous studies

500 FishBase/SeaLifeBase 450 82 references all together 400 350 300 250 200 Gaydos et al. (2008, 2011) 150

Number of species Number Cowles (2005) 100 50 0 Pisces Porifera Tunicata Annelida Sea birds Sea Phoronida Arthropoda Ochrophyta Rhodophyta Echinodermata Platyhelminthes Marine mammalsMarine Salish Sea fishes in FishBase (n=238)

Ray Troll Checked by Andy Lamb and Eric Taylor Checked against Peden (2002) Will be checked against Pietch and Orr

85% based on: Hart (1973), MacAllister (1990) Clemens et al. (1961) Favaro et al. (2010) Williams et al. (2010)

25 other orders

Scorpaeniformes Pleuronectiformes

Salmoniformes Perciiformes

http://www.fishbase.ca/trophiceco/FishEcoList.php?ve_code=1067 Very low Lmax=233 cm TL=3.57 Simple profiles High Lmax=14.1 cm TL=3.31 Low Lmax=96.7 cm TL=3.70

Medium Lmax=39.2 cm TL=3.44 Trophic pyramid

• Trophic level estimates from diet composition and food items. • Top predators: large species Salish Sea marine species in SeaLifeBase >90% based on : Macdonald et al. (2010);Lamb et al. (2011); Pacific Northwest Shell Club (2014); Schoch and Diether (2001); Marliave et al. (2011); Lambert and Austrin (2007); Gaydos and Pearson (2011); Backe et al. (2011); Elahi (2012); and Lambert (2000). Mike A. Yap, SeaLifeBase

Marine Nemertea Ochrophyta mammals Porifera Tunicata Bryozoa Sea birds

Rhodophyta

Mollusca Cnidaria

Echinodermata Arthropoda

Pisces

Annelida Trophic pyramid

Trophic level estimates from diet composition and food items. Top predators: seabirds and cetaceans

Also available for Puget Sound and Strait of Georgia How about the Salish Sea? Missing data in FishBase and SeaLifeBase • 68% of fish species have biological data in FishBase; • Only about 14% of non-fish metazoans, including some species with CR status in IUCN, have data in SeaLifeBase; • groups not well covered are: Cnidaria, Annelida, Kamptozoa, Kinorhyncha, Nemertea, Platyhelminthes, Porifera and Sipuncula; • Data gaps include diet composition studies in marine vertebrates (including fish), and maximum sizes and reproduction in . THANK YOU!

Pearsall Ecological Consulting for funding this work

Sea Around Us for funding my participation in this conference

Ted Pietsch for letting us use Ray Troll’s mural

Mike Pan for the map and artwork

SeaLifeBase and FishBase team members for encoding the data

FishBase Information and Research Group, Inc. IT Team for updating the *.ca web mirrors Salamat!

Merci!