The UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre
> (UNEP-WCMC) is pleased to announce a new database on
> the trade in aquarium species, the Global Marine
> Aquarium Database. This is available at
Correct link http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/GMAD/
Users of the Global Marine Aquarium Database will
> have access to approximately 50,000 records of trade
> in live aquarium species and may query these
> geographically (e.g. the number of fish exported
> from the western Pacific to North America) and
> taxonomically (e.g. the top ten most traded families
> of invertebrates in global trade).
>
> A more detailed description of the database and
> supporting project follows below. Further data
> collection is ongoing and the Global Marine Aquarium
> Database is continuously being updated, with the
> release of the next version scheduled for April.
>
> Comments, and notification of any errors especially
> in the names of invertebrates, would of course be
> appreciated.
>
> Best fishes,
> Ed
>
>
> Dr. Edmund Green
> Head, Marine and Coastal Programme
> UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
> 219 Huntingdon Road
> Cambridge
> CB3 0DL
> United Kingdom
>
> Tel: (44) 1223 277314
> Fax: (44) 1223 277136
>
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Since April 2000 the UNEP-WCMC and the Marine
> Aquarium Council (MAC) have been collaborating with
> members of trade associations to establish a Global
> Marine Aquarium Database (GMAD) as a freely
> available source of information on the global
> aquarium industry. Our common objective is to
> centralise, standardise and provide fast and easy
> access to information on the aquarium trade.
>
> Description of GMAD
>
> There is no monitoring or reporting framework for
> the global aquarium trade. This means that the best
> source of quantitative data are the wholesale import
> and export companies who link the supply and retail
> ends of the business. As a matter of routine
> business practice companies keep records of their
> sales, either as paper copies of their invoices or
> on company computer databases. The exact nature of
> these records varies, but all record the quantity of
> any individual species bought or sold, the date of
> each transaction and the source or destination of
> the shipment. Company sales records are therefore an
> excellent source of data on marine aquarium species
> in trade, and the only source for species not
> recorded under any other process (e.g. CITES).
>
> UNEP-WCMC and MAC have established good working
> relationships with such companies from all around
> the world. They have provided us with access to
> their sales records which are the core data in GMAD.
> These data have been through a careful and
> methodical period of data conversion (e.g. paper
> based records have been computerised) and formatting
> (e.g. data from different electronic systems have
> been placed into a single standardised format). Data
> from 45 representative wholesale exporters and
> importers of marine aquarium species have been
> harmonised by this process into a single publicly
> available Global Marine Aquarium Database.
>
> (UNEP-WCMC) is pleased to announce a new database on
> the trade in aquarium species, the Global Marine
> Aquarium Database. This is available at
Correct link http://www.unep-wcmc.org/marine/GMAD/
Users of the Global Marine Aquarium Database will
> have access to approximately 50,000 records of trade
> in live aquarium species and may query these
> geographically (e.g. the number of fish exported
> from the western Pacific to North America) and
> taxonomically (e.g. the top ten most traded families
> of invertebrates in global trade).
>
> A more detailed description of the database and
> supporting project follows below. Further data
> collection is ongoing and the Global Marine Aquarium
> Database is continuously being updated, with the
> release of the next version scheduled for April.
>
> Comments, and notification of any errors especially
> in the names of invertebrates, would of course be
> appreciated.
>
> Best fishes,
> Ed
>
>
> Dr. Edmund Green
> Head, Marine and Coastal Programme
> UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre
> 219 Huntingdon Road
> Cambridge
> CB3 0DL
> United Kingdom
>
> Tel: (44) 1223 277314
> Fax: (44) 1223 277136
>
>
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>
> Since April 2000 the UNEP-WCMC and the Marine
> Aquarium Council (MAC) have been collaborating with
> members of trade associations to establish a Global
> Marine Aquarium Database (GMAD) as a freely
> available source of information on the global
> aquarium industry. Our common objective is to
> centralise, standardise and provide fast and easy
> access to information on the aquarium trade.
>
> Description of GMAD
>
> There is no monitoring or reporting framework for
> the global aquarium trade. This means that the best
> source of quantitative data are the wholesale import
> and export companies who link the supply and retail
> ends of the business. As a matter of routine
> business practice companies keep records of their
> sales, either as paper copies of their invoices or
> on company computer databases. The exact nature of
> these records varies, but all record the quantity of
> any individual species bought or sold, the date of
> each transaction and the source or destination of
> the shipment. Company sales records are therefore an
> excellent source of data on marine aquarium species
> in trade, and the only source for species not
> recorded under any other process (e.g. CITES).
>
> UNEP-WCMC and MAC have established good working
> relationships with such companies from all around
> the world. They have provided us with access to
> their sales records which are the core data in GMAD.
> These data have been through a careful and
> methodical period of data conversion (e.g. paper
> based records have been computerised) and formatting
> (e.g. data from different electronic systems have
> been placed into a single standardised format). Data
> from 45 representative wholesale exporters and
> importers of marine aquarium species have been
> harmonised by this process into a single publicly
> available Global Marine Aquarium Database.
>
