Fisheries Links

1. Factual links

   Some of the websites providing reliable scientific information on Fisheries :

   • 1.1 Institutions addressing fisheries
   • 1.2 Environmental organizations
   • 1.3 More information for the consumers
   • 1.4 Some other sites
   • 1.5 Further reading: issues, studies, and outlook

See also our page containing sites linking to this Digest

 

1. Factual links

1.1 Institutions addressing fisheries

• The Fisheries Department of FAO (FAO Fisheries) aims to promote sustainable development of responsible fisheries and contribute to food security:
  www.fao.org/fi/ 
• The United Nations Atlas of the Oceans addresses fisheries and aquaculture and proposes links to fishery-related topics at: www.oceansatlas.org 
• The UN International Labour Organization addresses the issues of safety and health in the fishing industry: www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/sector/sectors/mariti/fishing.htm 
• The National Marine Fisheries Service of the U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Fisheries Service) addresses fisheries and proposes a link to its Office of Sustainable Fisheries at: www.nmfs.noaa.gov 

1.2 Environmental organizations

• The MSC (Marine Stewardship Council) is an independent non-profit organisation that promotes responsible fishing practices: www.msc.org 
• The MSC (Marine Conservation Society) is the UK charity dedicated to protecting the marine environment and its wildlife: www.mcsuk.org 
• The WorldFish Center proposes publications and news about fisheries worldwide at: www.worldfishcenter.org 
• The Pew Fellows Program in Marine Conservation proposes links to ocean-related resources, information, and ocean conservation organizations:
  www.e-guana.net/organizations.php3 

1.3 More information for the consumers

• The FISHONLINE website of the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) can help identify which fish are from well managed sources and/or caught using methods that minimise damage to marine wildlife and habitats: www.fishonline.org 
• The Fish List proposes to consumers a list of fish that are better for the environment and another list of fish that should be avoided at:
  www.thefishlist.org/thelist.shtml 

1.4 Some other sites

• OceanLaw proposes links to the entire text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at: www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm 
• FishBase proposes thorough information and data on all fishes at:
  www.fishbase.org 
• The ICSF (International Collective in Support of Fishworkers) proposes the latest news on fisheries and the life, livelihood and living conditions of fishworkers around the world at: www.icsf.net 
• The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition proposes fishery-related news at:
  www.savethehighseas.org 
• The (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) is the Regional Fishery Body that coordinates and promotes marine research in the North Atlantic. It proposes news on fisheries at: www.ices.dk 
• oneFish is an Internet portal for fisheries and aquatic research which provides access to hierarchically organised groups of information: www.onefish.org 
• Ocean Portal is a high-level directory of Ocean Data and Information related web sites:
  http://ioc.unesco.org/oceanportal/ 

1.5 Further reading: issues, studies, and outlook

The full FAO report "The State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture"  (2004) provides not only a general review of fisheries resources (Part 1, summarised in questions 1 to 8), but also goes into more details on specific topics.

Part 2 Selected Issues

• Capture-based aquaculture 
• Labour standards in the fishing sector 
• Fisheries management and CITES 
• Trade implications of fish species and fish product identification 
• Depleted stocks recovery: a challenging necessity 
• Governance and management of deep-water fisheries 

Part 3 Highlights of special FAO Studies

• Scope of the seaweed industry 
• Global aquaculture outlook: an analysis of production forecasts to 2030 
• Impacts of trawling on benthic habitats and communities 
• Measurements of fishing capacity 
• Re-estimating discards in the world's marine capture fisheries 
• Fisheries subsidies 
• African freshwaters: are small scale-fisheries a problem? 

Part 4 Outlook

• Introduction 
• The coming decade: constraints and opportunities 
• 2015 and beyond: future scenarios for world fisheries and aquaculture 

The FAO also publishes a periodical  "Review of the state of world marine fishery resources", which looks into more details into the fishery resources in specific areas.