Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF)

The Photographic Index of Australian Fishes (PIAF) is a collection of over 40,000 colour transparencies of some 2,500 fish species, representing more than half of the Australian fish fauna, held in conjunction with the Australian National Fish Collection (formerly the I.S.R. Munro Ichthyological Collection). It encompasses all of Australia's commercial seafood species, and contains the only photographs in existence of many bycatch species. It contains images of species from rivers and estuaries, from near-shore to the deep ocean, from the temperate regions to the tropics, as well as from remote offshore islands and the sub-Antarctic. CSIRO marine scientists have assembled PIAF over the last 30 years as a by-product of coastal and deep ocean surveys. PIAF images of commercial species have recently been published in the Australian Seafood Handbook, and also been used extensively in several books, such as South East Fishery Quota Species: an identification guide, Field Guide to Trawl Fish from Temperate Waters of Australia and Continental Shelf Fishes of Northern and North-Western Australia.澳大利亚鱼类影像索引（The Photographic Index of Australian Fishes，PIAF）是一套馆藏数据集，收录了约2500种鱼类的4万余张彩色透明胶片影像，涵盖澳大利亚鱼类区系的半数以上物种，与澳大利亚国家鱼类馆藏（前身为I.S.R.芒罗鱼类学馆藏）共同保存。该馆藏囊括了澳大利亚所有商用海鲜物种，同时保存了诸多兼捕渔获物种现存仅有的影像资料。其影像覆盖河流、河口、近岸至深海、温带至热带海域，以及偏远离岸岛屿与亚南极区域的各类鱼类物种。澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织（CSIRO）的海洋科学家在过去30年间，以近海与深海科考调查的副产品形式整理构建了PIAF。近期，商用鱼类物种的PIAF影像已刊发于《澳大利亚海鲜手册》，并被广泛应用于多部学术专著，包括《东南渔场配额物种识别指南》《澳大利亚温带水域拖网鱼类野外指南》以及《澳大利亚北部及西北部大陆架鱼类》。