International Fishing Information On The Net
This page was created to provide links to information about commercial fishing around the world. Includes links to statistical information and how to subscribe to different services and publications. The information is either global in nature or covers large geographic areas such as continents.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations(FAO) has general information about agriculture and news briefs related to all aspects including fishing.
Fisheries Department within the FAO has specific information just about fish and fishing. It has links to news and statistics.
Regional Bodies gives a description of each and contact information.
Committee on Fisheries has information on from the latest meeting, including publications.
Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries is available online and gives a good idea about the beliefs of the FAO.
FAO Fisheries Department, FAO Regional and Sub-Regional Offices, Fisheries Programme Profiles gives a description and contact information for these programme offices.
Fisheries Assistance For Small Island Developing States (SIDS) this site gives contact and publication information.
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is a biennial report that provides information about worldwide production.
Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts is an abstracting and indexing service covering the world's literature on the science, technology, management, and conservation of marine, brackish water, and freshwater resources and environments, including their socio-economic and legal aspects. This page gives information about the products, services and member organizations.
David Lubin Memorial Library is the library of the FAO. Although the collection isn't open to the general public, from this page you can get information on how to contact the reference librarian and get permission to use the library facilities.
Database on Introductions of Aquatic Species (DIAS) explains the introduction of foreign species of fish into new environments, including both positive and negative effects. The database is searchable and contains helpful statistics.
FAOSTAT is an on-line and multilingual database currently containing over 1 million time-series records covering international statistics on different aspects of agriculture including fishery products. These databases cover:
Both are searchable by country, product and year.
FAO Fisheries Department List of Fishery Databases and Applications gives a brief description of all the databases maintained by the Fisheries Department and how to subscribe to them.
FAO Fisheries Department Fishery Information, Data, and Statistics Unit (FIDI) describes the databases that this department maintains and tells you where to find the published statistics created from these databases. These publications include technical reports, papers and handbooks.
FishBase is a global information system with all you ever wanted to know about fishes, developed by the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in collaboration with the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and many other partners. This page gives samples of the database and ordering information.
GLOBEFISH was established in 1984 by FAO in order to meet the growing demand for precise and unbiased information on international trade with fish and fishery products. This site gives information about the products and services offered, including ordering information.
Related to this service is a network of regional marketing information services that collect and give out information about fish and fisheries. These are:
INFOFISH (Asian-Pacific region)
INFOPECHE (Africa)
INFOPESCA (Latin American and Caribbean Region)
INFOSAMAK (Arab Countries)
EASTFISH ( Eastern European countries)
INFOYU (China)
This page was created by
Patricia J. Kirwin
College of Library and Information Science, University of South Carolina
CLIS736