Screenshot of the FishSounds About Us page showing logos of funders and institutions associated with the project.
We are incredibly grateful to @wildlabs.bsky.social, @diioriolucia1.bsky.social, NSERC, and many others for supporting and funding our work. We hope to continue improving in the years to come!
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Screenshot of the FishSounds Admin Portal showing data import and export options.
The admin portal will also allow us to regularly import FishBase data and export our data. Our long-term data repository on Borealis will soon be reorganized and updated to better reflect the website.
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Screenshot of the FishSounds Admin Portal, showing options for adding different types of data or system management.
We are especially excited with our new admin portal, which will allow us to update the website continuously! From now on, FishSounds datasets may be updated at any point, so please take care to note the website version and access date to properly cite your data.
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Screenshot of the FishSounds Fisheries project page summarizing the FishSounds Fisheries (Canada) project, with data available for download.
We made a few more minor changes around the website, as well, such as updating the FishSounds Fisheries project page to include an acoustic catalog of Canadian fished species.
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Screenshot of the FishSounds website showing search results for research summaries published in 2024 and 2025.
We have also started adding information from references published in the years 2024 and 2025, with 2026 to soon follow! The systematized review of these new publications may not be completed for another month or so, so please understand that some may be missing for now.
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Screenshot of the FishSounds recording search options, showcasing the advanced search with new features like sound category and minimum frequency.
First, we now have simple and advanced search options to serve a variety of users. For our recordings, we are also in the process of implementing new visualizations, measurements, and standardized sound categories that will operate alongside the onomatopoeic names we’re all used to.
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Screenshot of the FishSounds home page with a pop up banner announcing that changes have been made.
🔉 Major FishSounds Website Update!!
The beta version of the new FishSounds.net is live now and will be finalized over the next month. Most of the updates won’t necessarily be noticeable on first glance, so a few of the more consequential changes are outlined below.
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First fish sounds recorded in the Southern Ocean by FishSounds friend, Fannie Shabangu, et al.! doi.org/10.1002/rse2...
Since our first review didn't identify any soniferous fishes from the Antarctic, we are so happy that folks are exploring this great unknown in fish #bioacoustics!
Our @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund updates are coming along well! Here's a demo of what our recording search pages will soon look like, including the ability to switch between simple and advanced search functions as well as acoustic measurements to help with filtering!
Screenshot of a FishSounds recording page showing an unnamed sound of a damselfish with a waveform and spectrogram.
Just wanted to share a sneak preview of what our recording visualizations will soon look like, thanks to the support of the @wildlabs.bsky.social Boring Fund! We'll also soon be adding new search features, data updates, and other changes, so stay tuned for more exciting news!
Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar announcement for Friday, January 30th at 12:30 ET From Audrey Looby, University of Victoria: "The Prevalence and Important of Soniferous Fishes" From Brooke Vetter, University of St. Thomas "Anthropogenic Noise and Fish Hearing: From Ecological Impacts to Invasive Species Management"
📣 New Bridging Brains and Bioacoustics Seminar next week!
Join us to learn about the ecology and neuroscience of soniferous fish from Audrey Looby and Brooke Vetter
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@FishSounds.bsky.social
#bioacoustics
#neuroskyence
#prattle 💬
🗓️ January 30th, 12:30 ET
✅ Register here: www.braincoustics.com
If you've been enjoying FishSounds Educate, check out
Frontiers for Young Minds for more kid-friendly science papers, including our new article on how sounds affect marine invertebrates!
Cover of the book What Fish Are Saying showcasing a variety of brightly colored fish
If you're looking for more great fish sounds educational content, check out FishSounds.net/educate.js or the beautifully illustrated kids book "What Fish Are Saying" by @kirstenpendreigh.bsky.social!
One of our FishSounds co-leads, Audrey Looby, recently talked to the Tumble Science Podcast for Kids and answered the question "What sounds do fish make?" 🎵🐠
Listen to find out here: www.sciencepodcastforkids.com/single-post/...
We really appreciate all the support of our funders, contributors, and collaborators, including from NSERC, DFO, @libererofellows.bsky.social, @q-quatics.bsky.social, @bioacoustics.bsky.social, and so many others you can find here: fishsounds.net/people.js ❤️
Visual summaries of the additions made to the datasets and recordings in FishSounds Versions 2 and 3. Top: Lollipop plot of the number of total and newly added references per publication year. Left: Spectrograms of select recordings added to the FishSounds database in the latest versions, showing representative grunts and boatwhistles of the Gulf toadfish and very fast repetitive ticks of a salmon that could not be identified to species. Right: Bar plot of the number of total and newly added recordings on the FishSounds database, either hosted on the website or through links to FishBase and the Macaulay Library.
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New publication about all the exciting additions we made to FishSounds throughout versions 2 and 3: doi.org/10.1111/geb....!
Since then, we've added even more recordings thanks to the FishEye Collaborative, and we have a lot more planned for next year!
We are incredibly grateful to WILDLABS for selecting us for this award, which will help us conduct the "boring" but critical task of adding visualizations and metadata to make recordings more easily searchable on FishSounds.net! 🎵🐠❤️
A bar plot showing the number of assessed designatable fish taxa that are actively soniferous, as well as the number of designatable taxa that had soundscapes and sound production mentioned in conservation documents produced by COSEWIC (Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada) and SARA (Species at Risk Act) and a second bar plot showing the number of actively soniferous designatable taxa that had at least one anthropogenic stressor mentioned as threats, as well as those that had noise pollution acknowledged as a potential threat in the same documents.
🐟New Publication🔉
We found that strategies for conserving at-risk fishes in Canada rarely consider acoustics. We propose that integrating fish sonifery and noise pollution into Canadian policies would improve species management and conservation efforts. Read more at doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...!
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Got freshwater sounds? Consider contributing to the Freshwater Sounds Archive! We're accepting submissions until the end of this year, and all contributors can co-author the resulting data paper. Learn more at fishsounds.net/freshwater.js and www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...!
Excited to share this new gorgeous science-informed kids book all about fish sounds! Our team is grateful for the opportunity to consult on the book and can't wait to use it during outreach events ❤️ 🐠 🔉
Do you have some recordings / want to be a part of the study?
Follow the instructions via @fishsounds.bsky.social (see below), submit your recordings, and become a co-author on the final mauscript.
fishsounds.net/freshwater.js
Pre-print out today: The Freshwater Sounds Archive! The world's first species-specific sound library for underwater freshwater species' sounds.
- 61 entries
- 35 contributors
- 16 countries
- 19 orders
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Are you ready for Science Rendezvous on May 10? 🎉🐟 FishSounds will be there—come visit us in the Elliott Building at UVic! Join us for a day of fun activities and fascinating research.
🔗 www.sciencerendezvous.ca/event_sites/...
#SciRen #SciRenYYJ #bioacoustics @uvicscience.bsky.social
screenshot of the FishSounds recording search page showing sergeant major sounds with embedded visualizations from the Macaulay Library
Browsing our #bioacoustics recordings just got easier! We've now embedded visualizations for the almost 1000 Macaulay Library recordings we link to on FishSounds. And we're hoping to improve the rest of our recording visualizations later this year!
Check out the Codcast - a new podcast about the discovery of new fish sounds
#bioacoustics 🐟🧪
open.spotify.com/show/4xjrZMU...
Whales sing, orcas squeal, and sea turtles croak. But sharks are more the strong, silent type. Now, researchers report the first evidence that sharks make sounds, too.
Learn more: scim.ag/3RmqcF5
The cover page of the book by Hailey Shafer, Hailey, Davies, Sarah Jim, Audrey Looby, and Kieran Cox, with three coloured fish. An example colouring page showing herring in a kelp forest.
We made a #bioacoustics colouring book! 🎨🐟 Download What Sound Does a Fish Make!? at fishsounds.net/educate.js for a fun at-home activity. This project features art by Sarah Jim—explore her amazing work at sarahjimstudio.com!
Enjoying our work? Consider supporting! You can now donate to the FishSounds effort at extrweb.uvic.ca/donate/fishsounds
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Worried you missed our FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar series? Well, don't worry! You can find all the recordings at www.youtube.com/@fishsounds8...!
FishSounds Educate seminar flyer about eavesdropping on fisheries. Register at FishSounds.net/educate.js
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We will have our final FishSounds Educate #bioacoustics seminar on Mar 7 at 9 am Pacific—all about eavesdropping on fisheries with Dr. Audrey Looby! Register here: uvic.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
