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Senior Scientist and Research Unit ManagerSea Around Us DegreesPhD, Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse (Institut National Polytéchnique de Toulouse, France) |
Contact Information
Email: m.palomares@oceans.ubc.ca
Office phone: (604) 822-0218
Website: Sea Around Us; SeaLifeBase; FishBase; Q-Quatics
Social Media:
facebook.com/SeaAroundUs
facebook.com/TheSeaLifeBaseProject
facebook.com/FishBase
Biography
Dr. Maria Lourdes ‘Deng’ Palomares has been the Sea Around Us Project Manager since June 2017. She is one of the creators of, and is the lead for, SeaLifeBase (since 2005), a biodiversity information system on the world’s marine organisms other than fish, which is patterned after FishBase (i.e., the fish biodiversity information system on the world’s fishes). Deng helps with molding the scientific thrusts (e.g., in defining projects, and the work-flow associated in producing deliverables in a timely manner) of the Philippine NGO, Quantitative Aquatics, as its Science Director. She serves as Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Marine Science’s section on Marine Fisheries, Aquaculture and Living Resources (since 2016). Originally from the Philippines, Deng obtained a PhD from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse (France) in 1991 and worked with the FishBase Project at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (Manila, Philippines) for 10 years before joining the Sea Around Us team in 2001.
Other
SCUBA diver who experiments with underwater photography. Speaks French and Tagalog fluently, and with working knowledge of Spanish. Is a friend of Mundus Maris (www.mundusmaris.org), supports Skipper Otto, and is a fan of the UBC Farm.
Research Interests
Application of well-known theories in fish and fisheries biology as tools to test hypotheses and/or generate knowledge from ‘big data’ repositories. This is in line with the improvement and maintenance of global marine biodiversity information systems, FishBase and SeaLifeBase, which support the Sea Around Us catch database with key data on life history, geographic range, habitat and ecology for all exploited marine species.
Use of anecdotes from ancient voyages and expeditions by naturalists to help extend temporal trends (in species occurrence and volume or in the species composition of some ecosystems of interest) back in time at least to the 19th Century. This might help establish baselines, potentially going back 100 years, notably in understanding the exploitation of some important species groups like fishes and marine mammals.
Investigation of assembled traditional ecological knowledge associated with common names of fish and marine organisms in different languages and cultures and how this can inform or extend information for data-poor species and species groups. Traditional knowledge by fisher communities may help in providing insights, for example, to the spawning and migration behaviours of some species, which may still have escaped scientific scrutiny.
Selected Publications:
Palomares MLD and Pauly D (eds.) (2024) Reconstruction of Freshwater Fisheries Catches: Canada, Minnesota (USA), and ASEAN Countries, Fisheries Centre Research Report 32(3). 253 pp.
Palomares MLD, Tipay PGI, Pauly D (2024) The freshwater artisanal fisheries of Canada. In: Palomares MLD and Pauly D (eds.) Reconstruction of Freshwater Fisheries Catches: Canada, Minnesota (USA), and ASEAN Countries, p. 8-28 Fisheries Centre Research Report 32(3). Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Phayal A, Gold A, Maharani C, Palomares MLD, Pauly D, Prins B, and Riyadi S (2024) All maritime crimes are local: Understanding the causal link between illegal fishing and maritime piracy. Political Geography 109: 103069. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103069
Worm B, Orofino S, Burns ES, Feitosa LM, Palomares MLD, Schiller L and Bradley D (2024). Global shark fishing mortality still rising despite widespread regulatory change. Science https://doi.org/adf8984
Abucay LR, Capuli EC, Reyes RB, Daskalaki E, Ferrà C, Scarcella G, Coro G, Ordines F, Dakalov G, Klayn S, Celie L, Scotti M, Grémillet D, Lambert C, Gal G, Palomares MLD, Dimarchopoulou D and Tsikliras, AC (2023). Scientific knowledge gaps on the biology of non-fish marine species across European Seas. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1198137. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1198137
Demiril N, Nauen CE and Palomares MLD (2023) Fishing effort and the evolving nature of its efficiency. Frontiers in Marine Science 10, 1180174 https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1180174
Froese R, Coro G, Palomares MLD, Bailly N, Scotti M, Garilao C and Pauly D (2023) A simple framework for the exploration of functional Biodiversity. Cybium 47(3): 271-286, https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2023-003.
Froese R, Winker H, Coro G, Palomares MLD, Tsikliras AC, Dimarchopoulou D, Touloumis K, Demirel N, Vianna GMS, Scarcella G, Schijns R, Liang C and Pauly D (2023) New developments in the analysis of catch time series as the basis for fish stock assessments: The CMSY++ method. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 53: 173-189. https://doi.org/10.3897/aiep.53.e105910
Heidrich KN, Meeuwig JJ, Juan-Jordá MJ, Palomares MLD, Pauly D, Thompson CDH, Friedlander AM, Sala E and Dirk Zeller (2023) Multiple lines of evidence highlight the dire straits of yellowfin tuna in the Indian Ocean. Ocean & Coastal Management 246 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2023.106902
Humphries AT, Dimarchopoulou D, Stergiou KI, Tsikliras AC, Palomares MLD, Bailly N, Nauen CE, Luna S, Banasihan LP, Froese R and Pauly D (2023) Measuring the scientific impact of FishBase after three decades. Cybium , 47(3): 213-224. https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2023-002.
Nauen CE, Rius-Barile J and Palomares MLD (2023). Know your fish – venturing further with the FishBase Guide app (early view). Cybium. https://doi.org/10.26028/CYBIUM/2023-023.
Sumaila UR, de Fontaubert C and Palomares MLD (2023) Overfishing, ocean carbon function and the resilience of fish and fisheries. Frontiers in Marine Science, 10, 1250449. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2023.1250449
Zeller D, Palomares MLD and Pauly D (2023) Global fisheries science documents human impacts on oceans: The Sea Around Us serves civil society in the twenty-first century. Annual Review of Marine Science 15. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-030322-113814.
Cheung WWL, Palacios-Abrantes J, Frölicher TL, Palomares MLD, Clarke T, Lam VWY, Oyinlola MA, Pauly D, Reygondeau G, Sumaila UR, Teh LCL AND Wabnitz CCC (2022) Rebuilding fish biomass for the world’s marine ecoregions under climate change. Global Change Biology 28: 6254–6267. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16368.
Palomares MLD, Parducho VA, Reyes R and Bailly N (2022)The interrelationship of temperature, growth parameters, and activity level in fishes. Environmental Biology of Fishes https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01261-5.
Palomares MLD and Pauly D (2022) The fisheries of the sea around St. Pierre and Miquelon: from cod to sea cucumber. Cybium 6(4): 337-347. https://doi.org/10.26028/cybium/2022-464-002.
Tamlin J, Palomares MLD and Lundquist CJ (2022) Safeguarding seafood security, marine biodiversity and threatened species: Can we have our fish and eat it too? Frontiers in Marine Science 9 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2022.826587.
Palomares MLD, Khalfallah M, Zeller D and Pauly D (2021) The Fisheries of the Arabian Sea Large Marine Ecosystem, In: L.A. Jawad (ed.). The Arabian Seas: Biodiversity, Environmental Challenges and Conservation Measures, p. 883-987. Springer Nature, Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51506-5_38.
Palomares MLD, Baxter S, Bailly N, Chu E, Derrick B, Frias-Donaghey M, Nöel SL, Page E, Schijns R, Woroniak J, Abucay L, David E, de Leon S, Nevado M, Ortiz S, Parducho VA, Yap PS, Ansell M, Hood L, Vianna G, White R, Zeller D and Pauly D (2021). Estimating the biomass of commercially exploited fisheries stocks left in the ocean. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 29 (3): 74 pp.
Pauly D, Piroddi C, Hood L, Bailly N, Chu E, Lam V, Pakhomov EA, Pshenichnov LK, Radchenko VI and Palomares MLD. 2021. The Biology of Mesopelagic Fishes and Their Catches (1950–2018) by Commercial and Experimental Fisheries. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 9: 1057. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse910105
Relano V, Palomares MLD and Pauly D (2021) Comparing the performance of four very large Marine Protected Areas with different levels of protection. Sustainability 13(17):9572. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179572
Sorensen PW and Palomares MLD (2021) Global inland capture and culture finfisheries follow different trends when evaluated by the Human Development Index. Sustainability 13: 8420. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158420
Palomares MLD, Khalfallah M, Woroniak J and Pauly D (eds.) (2020) Assessments of marine fisheries resources in West Africa with emphasis on small pelagics. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 28(4): 100 pp
Palomares MLD, Froese R, Derrick B, Meeuwig JJ, Nöel SL, Tsui G, Woroniak J, Zeller D and Pauly D (2020) Fishery biomass trends of exploited fish populations in marine ecoregions, climatic zones and ocean basins”, Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 243: 06896 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.106896.
Palomares MLD, Cabanban AS, Pauly D. eds. (2019). Historical reconstructions of marine fisheries catches: Challenges and opportunities. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-955-1
Palomares MLD, Woroniak J, Nöel S-L, Tsui G, Derrick B, Pauly D (2019) Preliminary stock assessments of small pelagic fish populations off West Africa. A report prepared by the Sea Around Us for the MAVA Foundation. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 39 p.
Palomares MLD and Pauly D (2019) Coastal Fisheries: The past, present, and possible futures, pp. 569-576. In Elliott M, Day J, Wolanski E, Ramachandran R (eds.) Coasts and Estuaries The Future. Elsevier Inc., London.
Hayden B, Palomares MLD, Smith BE and Poelen JH. (2019) Biological and environmental drivers of trophic ecology in marine fishes – a global perspective. Scientific Reports 9:11415 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-47618-2
Palomares MLD and Pauly D (2019) On the creeping increase of vessels’ fishing power. Ecology and Society 23(3): 31.
Pauly D and Palomares MLD (2019) Editorial: Historical reconstructions of marine fisheries catches: challenges and opportunities. Frontiers in Marine Science 6, doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00128.
Palomares MLD, Froese R, Derrick B, Nöel S-L, Tsui G, Woroniak J, Pauly D (2018) A preliminary global assessment of the status of exploited marine fish and invertebrate populations. A report prepared by the Sea Around Us for OCEANA. June 30 2018. University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 59 p.
Palomares MLD, Cheung WWL, Lam VWY, Pauly D (2016) Chapter 4. The distribution of exploited marine biodiversity. In: Pauly, D and Zeller, D (eds.), Global Atlas of Marine Fisheries: A Critical Appraisal of Catches and Ecosystem Impacts, p. 46-58. Island Press, USA.
Palomares MLD, Tran LD, Coghlan AR, Sheedy J, Cheung W, Lam V, Pauly D (2015) Taxon distributions. In: Pauly D, Zeller D (eds.), Catch reconstructions: concepts, methods and data sources.Online Publication. Sea Around Us (www.seaaroundus.org). University of British Columbia. [updated in May 2016].
Palomares MLD, Bimbao MAP (2015) FishBase and SeaLifeBase for Teaching and Research in Aquatic Science. Proceedings of the 13th FishBase Symposium held at the Havaner Auditorium, Chandler Hall, IRRI, Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, 1 September 2015. FishBase Information and Research Group. Philippines, 44 p.
Palomares MLD, Taylor E, Pauly D (Editors) (2014) Big old data and shiny new insights: using FishBase for research. Book of Abstracts. 12th FishBase Symposium, Beaty Museum of Biodiversity. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Sea Around Us Project, Fisheries Centre. The University of British Columbia: Vancouver, 98 p.
Palomares MLD, Pauly D (2014) Philippine Marine Fisheries Catches: A Bottom-up Reconstruction, 1950 to 2010. The Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 22(1), 171 p.
Palomares MLD, Bailly N (2011) Organizing and disseminating marine biodiversity information: the FishBase and SeaLifeBase story. In: Christensen V, Maclean J (eds.), Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries. A Global Perspective, pp. 24-46. Cambridge University Press, New York.
Palomares MLD, Pauly D (2011) Documenting the marine biodiversity of Belize through FishBase and SeaLifeBase. In: Palomares MLD, Pauly D (eds.), Too Precious to Drill: the Marine Biodiversity of Belize, pp. 78-106. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 19(6). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Palomares MLD, Pauly D (2009) The growth of jellyfishes. Hydrobiologia 616(1), 11-21.
Palomares MLD, Heymans JJ, Pauly D (2007) Historical ecology of the Raja Ampat Archipelago, Papua Province, Indonesia. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 29, 33-56.
Palomares MLD, Mohammed E, Pauly D (2006) European expeditions as a source of historic abundance data on marine organisms: a case study of the Falkland Islands. Environmental History 11 (October 2006), 835-847.
Palomares MLD, Stergiou KI, Pauly D (Editors) (2006) Fishes in databases and ecosystems. Proceedings of the 4th FishBase Mini-Symposium. Fisheries Centre Research Reports 14(4), Fisheries Centre, UBC, Vancouver, BC, 95 p.
Pauly D, Palomares MLD (2005) Fishing down marine food webs: it is far more pervasive than we thought. Bulletin of Marine Science 76(2), 197-211.
Palomares MLD, Pauly D (2004) Biodiversity of Namibian waters: a review of currently available information, p. 53-74. In: Sumaila UR, Boyer D, Skogen MD, Steinshamn SI (eds.), Ecological, economic and social aspects of Namibian fisheries. Eburon Academic Publishers. Delft, Netherlands.
Froese R, Palomares MLD (2000) Growth, length-weight relationship, maximum length and length at first maturity of the coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae. Environmental Biology of Fishes58, 45-52.
Pauly D, Christensen V, Froese R, Palomares MLD (2000) Fishing down aquatic food webs. American Scientist 88, 46-51.
Palomares MLD, Pauly D (1998) Predicting the food consumption of fish populations as functions of mortality, food type, morphometrics, temperature and salinity. Marine and Freshwater Research 49(5), 447-453.
Palomares MLD, Froese R, Pauly D (1993) On traditional knowledge, fish and databases: a call for contributions. SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 2, 17-19.
Palomares MLD, Pauly D (1989) A multiple regression model for predicting the food consumption of marine fish populations. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 40(3), 259-284.
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