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How to contribute pictures
FishBase currently has around
20,000 pictures of about 8,000 fish species. There are many species that
still lack photos in the database, especially of freshwater and aquarium
fishes. If you have good quality photos of these species, we would be
interested to use them in FishBase. The copyright
will remain with you. We will attach your name to every photo and make your
contact address and URL available in FishBase (if you agree). A minimum of
three photos accepted and used in FishBase is required, for you to receive a
free copy of the FishBase CD-ROM but this requirement may not apply in some
cases. Those with exceptional, hard-to-find photo may also qualify for a
free copy.
There are three options to contribute pictures:
- Post slides or prints by airmail to
ICLARM/FishBase
MC P.O. Box 2631
0718 Makati City
Philippines
We will scan the slides/prints and return them to you,
together with your copy of FishBase.
- If you have your own scanner you may scan the photos in max
640 * 480 pixels resolution, true color, and save them as JPEG with a compression that
results in a file size of 30-80 kilobytes. You can send the photos on diskette or attach
them to your e-mail or tell us from where to download (FTP) them. Please provide a list
with the file names, locality, and date when the photo was taken.
- If you have already scanned your photos in high resolution
on a Kodak Photo CD-ROM, you may either resample them to the resolution indicated above in
option 2, or send us the CD-ROM and allow us to do the resampling. In any case, don't
forget to provide the list of file names.
- For every picture, please give as much as possible of the
following information:
- scientific name of the fish
- estimated total length in cm
- country, locality and/or aquarium where the photo was taken
- date when the photo was taken
Please also indicate what book (author, year, title) you
used to identify the fish.
Thank you for your help. We are looking forward to seeing
your pictures!
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