Fisheries Information Sources

Resource Guides

• Trevor Kenchinton's List of Fisheries Sites
• The Collapse of the Northwest Atlantic Groundfish Resources
• The Fishing Net - Links to Commercial Fishing Sites
• North Atlantic Fisheries College Marine Fisheries Links
• Management of the Northern Cod Fishery: A Guide to Information Sources
• Bibliography on the Conservation of Biological Diversity: Biological/Ecological, Economic, and Policy Issues
• Catalogue of Biological Studies
• Tom Tietenberg' s Bibliography of Individual Transferable Quotas

Data Sources

• FAOSTAT Fisheries Data
• Canadian DFO Fisheries Statistics
• Canada Fish Products Industry (Industry Canada data)
• Canadian Industry Statistics
• Growth Trends
• Industry Overview
• Equity Financing
• FAO Fishery Information,Data and Statistics Unit (FIDI) Data
• U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Fisheries Statistics
• NMFS Fishery Market News
• Sea-World Fish Market Prices
• NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC)
• Alaska Commercial Fishing Data
• The National Fisherman current price data

Government Sites

• Canada Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO)
• Department Publications
•  NorthWest Atlantic Fisheries Center (DFO Newfoundland Region) - Domain limited, so you may not get in.
• Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat (CSAS)
• Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC)
• Canada Senate Fisheries Committee
• U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service
• U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
• United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs
• FAO Fisheries Department
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)

Documents

• Canada Fisheries Acts, Orders and Regulations
• Proposed Canada Fisheries Act
• Proposed Canada Fish Inspection Act
• Proposed Act to amend the Coastal Fisheries Protection Act and the Canada Shipping Act in order to implement the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
• Commercial Fisheries Licensing Policy For Eastern Canada - July 1996
• Overview of Canadian Marine Fisheries Resources (Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat)
• Canadian Stock Status Reports (DFO)
• Atlantic Groundfish Management Plan - 1996 and 1997
• 1997 Report of the Auditor General of Canada
• Chapter 14: Sustainable Fisheries Framework: Atlantic Groundfish
• Chapter 15: Rationalization and Renewal: Atlantic Groundfish
• Chapter 16: The Atlantic Groundfish Strategy
• 1999 Report of the Auditor General of Canada
• Chapter 4: Managing Atlantic Shellfish in a Sustainable Manner
• Chapter 7: The Atlantic Groundfish Strategy: Contributions and Grants
• Chapter 8: The Atlantic Groundfish Strategy: Follow-up
• Fisheries Resource Conservation Council
1999 Conservation Requirements Cod Stocks in Division 2J3LK(May/99)
• 1999 Conservation Requirements for the Gulf of St. Lawrence Groundfish Stocks and Cod Stocks in Divisions 2GH and 3Ps and Science Priorities Letter to Minister (Mar/99)
• 1999 Conservation Requirements for Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy Groundfish Stocks, Redfish Stocks, Units 1-3 and 3-0, and Groundfish Stocks in Division 3Ps. (November 1998)
• 1999 Conservation Requirements for Groundfish Stocks Other Than Cod in Sub Area O and Area 2+3 (except 3ps). (October 1998)
• Eugene Harrigan's Post-TAGS Review Report
• Report of the Commons Standing Committee on the Fisheries and Oceans (Canadian  East Coast Fisheries Report)
• Report of the Standing Senate Committee on Fisheries, Privatization and Quota Licensing in Canada's Fisheries
• UN Law of the Sea Convention
• UN Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
• FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
• Congressional Research Service Reports - Marine
• Congressional Research Service Fish Policy Updates
• Report on the Status of Fisheries of the United States by U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service
• U.S. Sustainable Fisheries Act
• Insight into the Methodology and Logic Behind National Marine Fisheries Service Fish Stock Assessments
• U.S. National Research Council's Improving Fish Stock Assessments

Software

• FAO Fisheries Department Fisheries Software
• DFO's ADAPT
• ECONMULT a fleet model covering the most important Norwegian fisheries of the Barents Sea.
• Fishbase Manual

Scientific Publications

• Canadian Journal of Fisheries & Aquatic Sciences
• Marine Resource Economics
• DFO Atlantic Fisheries Research Documents
• COFREPECHE On Line publications
• Fishing News Books
• South Atlantic Fishery Management Council's Searchable Maritime Social Science Bibliography
• Pauly, D. and V. Christensen. 1997. Trophic levels of fishes

Papers

• Buck, E. H. (1995) Individual Transferable Quotas in Fishery Management
• Buck, E. H. (1995) Social Aspects of Federal Fishery Management
• McCay, B.J. and Finlayson, A.C. (1995) The Political Ecology of Crisis and Institutional Change: The Cage of the Northern Cod
• Roy, Noel (1997), The Newfoundland Fishery: A Descriptive analysis
• Roy, Noel (1996), The Impact of Social Insurance on the Length of the Fishing Season
• Roy, Noel; Mazany, Leigh, and Schrank, William (1994), A Simultaneous Equations Model of the U.S. Market for Canadian Atlantic Cod
• Runolfsson, B. and Arnason, R. (1996) Evolution and Performance of the Icelandic ITQ System
• Stefansson, Gunnar, Notes on the Dynamics of Fish Populations

Organizations

• International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade
• North East Fisheries Science Center (Woods Hole)
• SeaWeb
• Pacific Salmon Alliance
• International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP)
• Rutgers Ecopolicy Center Marine and Coastal Policy Group
• Ocean98 - Information about oceans - under development

Conferences

• IIFET '98 Conference
• Cabot 500 Celebrations: Summit of the Sea

Other Links

• The National Fisherman On-Deck - News, Market updates, current prices, Federal Register
• Aquatic Animals Mailing Lists
• Fishfolk: A Fisheries Social Science Discussion Group
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin
• REFM Stock Assessment and Multispecies Modelling
• Fish Tales
• Sea-World fish Information Service
• Fisheries Law Page
• Convention on International Trade on Endangered Species
• Sustainable Development and Economics Home Page
• Oceans of Trouble - Award winning newspaper series
• Canadian Geographic Feature on The Rise and Fall of Atlantic Cod
• Kim Bell's Endangered Species Assessment

Updated May 31, 1999
noelroy@morgan.ucs.mun.ca