Dataset Card for FishBase Snapshots of FishBase data tables used by the rOpenSci package rfishbase and the FishBase API. Dataset Details Dataset Description Curated by: Carl Boettiger License: CC BY NC, FishBase.org Team Dataset Sources , , via exclusive export of backend MySQL databases. Uses Direct Use This data is provided to facilitate access to fishbase statistics through rfishbase . Curation has evolved over the past decade and now provides basically direct access to versioned snapshots of the fishbase backend data. Out of Scope Use Reuse of this data is not licensed for commerical applications. Developers should contact the FishBase team directly. See for details. Dataset Structure Data provided here are raw CSV and parquet exports from the MySQL database backend powering and its sister site, . Please note that there are many tables here which have evolved over decades and were not developed with the intent of ever supporting direct access by end users. The data structure can be highly unintuitive and common tasks may require joins across multiple tables. These files represent a snapshot in time as indicated by the version numbers (e.g. v24.07 is data snapshot dated to July…
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