WebSites:

1. http://www.iclarm.org/

   The World Fish Center on the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources web page “is a food and environment research organization that joins forces with farmers, scientists, and policy makers around the world to help the rural poor increase their income, preserve their environment, and improve their lives.” It includes the World Fish Center Annual Report; good links to co-founded sites (e.g., International Network on Genetics in Aquaculture); and project pages on ReefBase (information on coral reefs worldwide), TrawlBase (information on management of near-shore fisheries), fish supply and demand in Asia and prospects for poor households, and the Co-Management project which aims to “demonstrate the applicability of co-management as a sustainable, equitable and efficient management strategy and develop models for use by governments, fishing communities, NGOs and other groups.”

2. http://www.seafdec.org/

   This is the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center website. It includes links to documents from the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security in the New Millennium, ASEAN-SEAFDEC programs, information on the regionalization of the code of conduct for responsible fisheries, an aquaculture program to boost mangrove recovery, marine fishery resource information for the South China Sea, the establishment of a working group on regional fisheries policy, and a network of fishery management experts in Asia. It also has a very cool link to digitalized maps that link statistical information to GIS maps.

3. http://www.seafdec.org/millennium/contenttech.html

   Technical Documents for the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Conference on Sustainable Fisheries for Food Security in the New Millennium "Fish For the People"

4. http://www.dfg.ca.gov/

   This is the California Department of Fish and Game website. It contains pages for the Aquatic Bioassessment Laboratory, legislation, enforcement, environmental reviews, fish planting, freshwater fishing, habitat conservation, lake/streambed alteration, marine resources, publications, statistics and databases. The best part of this site is that by entering “Nearshore Fishery Management Plan” in the search window and selecting the NFMP hit (third from the top), you can read the draft plan online. The plan is long, but really important as it represents the first time California has tried to comprehensively address this issue. Chapter 2 gives great background by going through a list of management measures, harvest control rules, programmatic alternatives to harvest control rules, and other management measures (e.g., regional management, marine protected areas, and allocation).

5. http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ National Marine Fisheries Service

   The Office of Sustainable Fisheries is a headquarters program office of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), also known as NOAA Fisheries. The Office was created to oversee and implement steps required to meet the objectives of the NOAA Fisheries Strategic Plan, which contains the following objectives:

   • Maintain healthy stocks important to commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries.
   • Eliminate overfishing and rebuild overfished stocks important to commercial, recreational, and subsistence fisheries.
   • Increase long-term economic and social benefits to the nation from living marine resources.
   • Promote the development of robust and economically sound aquaculture.

   There are many links off of this one—check out the following:

   • http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/ This Web site provides access to information associated with and resulting from National Marine Fisheries Service implementation of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, including 1996 changes and amendments to the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
   • http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/sustainablefisheries/default.htm Groundfish Fishery News & Catch Data Information Bulletins: News, Regulatory changes, Closures, Openings Catch Statistics: Total Catch, Quotas, Closure Summary, Harvest Specifications Tables, Gear and Discard Reports, Products and Product Codes Effort Report: Distribution of At-Sea Processors Fisheries Outlook: Current Week's Management Activity Status of 2002 Fisheries: Areas Open and Bycatch
   • http://www.noaa.gov/fisheries.html NOAA Fisheries Service - is dedicated to protecting and preserving our nation's living marine resources through scientific research, fisheries management, enforcement, and habitat conservation. NOAA Fisheries is a leading voice for commercial and recreational fisheries and continues to focus its efforts on sustaining our marine resources as we face the challenges that the new millennium brings. Marine fisheries (which extend from state waters to 200 miles from our shores) provide an important source of food for the nation, as well as thousands of jobs and a traditional way of life for many coastal communities. From the Gulf of Maine, to the Gulf of Mexico, and to the Gulf of Alaska, NOAA Fisheries scientists and managers work to ensure sustainable fish harvests; they are the stewards of our nation's living marine resources and their habitats
   • http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/Sustainable%20Fisheries/SustainableTabs.htm To continue to keep our commitment to the public to keep everyone informed, a new page with information about the Sustainable Fisheries Act has recently been published. Take a look and provide comments where it is noted on that page
   • http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/prot_res/prot_res.html This NOAA page houses the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Office of Protected Resources which is dedicated to conserving protected marine resources and maintaining marine biodiversity. The site contains links to its Protected Resources Programs, Marine Mammal Conservation, Endangered Species Conservation, Marine Biodiversity, International Activities, and Protected Marine Species pages.

6. http://www.fao.org/

   The FAO website is an excellent source of information. We have several links off of this website: Start by clicking on fisheries, then click on The State of the Worlds Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA). In SOFIA, 2000, look at Indicators of Sustainable development and the precautionary approach in marine capture fisheries. You can also go straight to SOFIA, 2000 at: http://www.fao.org/DOOCREP/003/X8002E/X8002E00.htm Also, look at the link to the Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme (located on the right side) and at: http://www.fao.org/fi/Resrcs.asp : This is the FAO Fisheries Resource page and contains sections on fisheries production and trade, management, environment, socio-economics, statistics, regional fisheries bodies, the World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2000 Annual Report, species identification and data program, the 1996 Fisheries and Aquaculture Situation and Outlook circulars (broken out by region: Europe, Near East/North Africa, Latin America/Carribean, Sub Saharan Africa, and the South Pacific), and Fish Base, an excellent global information system on fishes (among others!).

7. http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/envs61/ The Tragedy of the Coastal Commons

   “A unique, virtual space for conversations about sustaining our coastal resources.” This is a simple, but good, interactive website on sustainable fisheries. The key word is interactive here, folks. Click on “start here” and it will take you to the starting point for discussions. Read the case studies (all in the US—salmon in Alaska, Crab in Chesapeake Bay, and groundfisheries in Massachusetts), and then leave your comments/questions or read those left by others. An interesting idea—could this be a way to link interested parties on behalf of sustainable fishery development?

8. http://www.sff.bc.ca/

   The Sustainable Fisheries Foundation (the Foundation) is a non-profit organization that was formed in 1995. The Foundation is a registered charitable organization in Canada and a 501(c)3 organization in the United States. The Foundation is dedicated to the protection, enhancement, and wise use of fisheries resources of the Pacific Northwest.

9. http://www.ufawu-caw.org/sust_fish.htm

   The purpose of the Sustainable Fisheries Society is to organize and connect diverse elements of our fisheries jigsaw puzzle into an easily understood, unified policy. The union's Sustainable Fisheries Policy is founded on our belief in the interdependence of three key principles; conservation, sustainable economics and sustainable social objectives.