Researchers at the University of Delaware have created a dataset that contains the spawning locations of about a thousand marine fish species in all the world’s oceans. Researchers cleaned and geocoded data from FishBase, a global database of fish species, and the Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations, a U.S.-based nonprofit raising awareness about fish spawning aggregations, to create almost 3,000 sets of coordinates for these locations. The dataset can help scientists study marine fish population dynamics on a regional or global scale.
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