Coral bleaching is a major phenomon affecting coral reefs around the world. An initial database of bleaching observations was compiled by UNEP-WCMC using a variety of sources. This database has been expanded by Dr. J. Oliver, Mr. Y. Yusuf and Ms. Nurulhuda Ahmad Fatan from WorldFish, using information from the ReefBase database, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA), the CoralList, and other sources of information. This dataset also includes observations indicating no bleaching

Producer and hatchery data on provinces in China that have adopted genetically improved farmed tilapia (GIFT).

The Lesser Sunda - Banda Seascape (SBS) lies in the center of Coral Triangle area, a world-renowned center of marine biodiversity. The region is a global conservation priority based on its high diversity of coral reef species, high reef habitat diversity, strategic role in connectivity, significant role in sea turtle life cycles and significant to highly endangered oceanic cetaceans (Huffard et al., 2012). SBS signifies the entire Seascape, which encompasses two large ecoregions: the Lesser Sunda Ecoregion and the Banda Sea Ecoregion.

The Lesser Sunda-Banda Seascape encompasses three functional sub-Seascapes: Lesser Sunda Seascape, Inner Banda Arc Seascape, and South and East Sulawesi Seascape. Fuctional seascape is defined as "areas within a wider ecoregion within which there is some geographical or ecological distinctiveness, but over a smaller area that maybe more suitable for the application of management measures such as MPA networks" (Green & Mous, 2008). These functional sub-seascapes provide a practical unit for marine conservation, including the design and implementation of networks of MPAs.

Intra-regional fish trade has potential in addressing the region’s food and nutrition insecurity, as well as poverty reduction, by enabling movement of fish from countries of surplus to those with deficit. However, informal fish trade, just like all informal economic activities, has been overlooked and neglected in many national and regional policies, leading to obscurity of such an important part of the fisheries sector.

Long-term mean sea surface temperature (°C) throughout Lesser Sunda-Banda Seascape over the period July 2002 to June 2013 at a 4 km spatial resolution. The dataset was derived by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) from remote sensing imagery acquired by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua Satellite.