North Pacific Ichthyoplankton Information System (IIS)

The Northeast Pacific Ichthyoplankton Information System (IIS), allows the user to access data on the early life history of fishes collected by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) Recruitment Processes Program, which includes Fisheries-Oceanography Coordinated Investigations (FOCI). The site can be used to identify unknown fish eggs and larvae by using known data such as meristics, distribution, and illustrations of developmental stages or as a source of original data on the early life history stages of fishes of the Northeast Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. Also presented are useful interactive links to ICLARM's FishBase and LarvalBase and the University of Washington's Fish Collection Archive. Users can browse through 289 taxa currently available or search by taxa or character. The IIS is still in its "beta version". References: Matarese, A. C., D. M. Blood, S. J. Picquelle, and J. L. Benson. 2003. Atlas of abundance and distribution patterns of ichthyoplankton from the Northeast Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea ecosystems based on research conducted by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (1972-1996). U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Professional Paper, NMFS 1, 281 p. (.pdf, 89.93mb) URL: http://spo.nwr.noaa.gov/pp1.pdf. Matarese, A.C. , A.W. Kendall Jr., D.M. Blood, and B.M. Vinter 1989. Laboratory guide to early life history stages of northeast pacific fish. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 80, 652 p. Moser G. H. 1996. The early stages of fishes in the California current region. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations, Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas. Busby, M.S. 1998. Guide to the identification of larval and early juvenile poachers (Scorpaeniformes: Agonidae) from the northeastern Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 137, 88 p. Deposited content: descriptive metadata only; underlying research data are not included.