Internet Subject Directories/Portals/Gateways in Fisheries
The Internet contains both popular and scholarly information of interest
in fisheries, including information from government agencies and organizations.
While there are perhaps 100 billion "public" web pages there are
900 billion more pages in the "deep" web. These are hidden behind
firewalls of commercial firms and within databases that generate information
based on a specific inquiry.
There are two major approaches to locating material on the Internet. One
commonly used approach is to use Google and other general Internet
search tools to search by keyword to identify information on "public"
web pages. The other approach is to use "subject directories" that contain
a more selective and focused collection of resources. They are frequently
organized into categoried lists of subjects that can be browsed until a
useful information source is located. Subject directories are also good
sources for finding databases containing information not identified by the
general Internet search engines.
The following individuals, organizations, and universities maintain directories,
portals, and gateways of interest to fisheries biologists and managers.
- General
- AFS Hotlist
of Useful Sites (American Fisheries Society) Subdivisions includes
academic institutions, professional societies, fisheries/natural resources,
jobs, scientific journals, US government, and state government.
- AquaNIC (Aquaculture Network Information
Center) "Gateway to the world's electronic aquaculture resources."
- ComFish Index:
The Commercial Fishing and Seafood Index (Kodiak Chamber of Commerce)
- Ecology WWW Page
(Anthony Brach)
- FINS: Fish Information Service
(Mark Rosenstein) Focus is on links of interest to the aquarium hobbyist.
- Fisheries and Aquatic Resources
(National Biological Information Infrastructure)
- Fishing for Information:
A Hypertext Guide to Internet Resources in Aquatic Science (University
of Stirling Institute of Aquaculture) Subdivisions include aquaculture,
fisheries, aquaria and fish diseases; marine science; freshwater biology
and ecology; environment, waste treatment and toxicology; and water
resources, climate and earth science.
- Hooking into Fish
Facts: Internet Resources in Marine Fisheries (Laurel Duda, Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
- Ichthyology Web
Resources (Keith Jackson, University of Alberta)
- Internet Resources
Guide for Zoology (BIOSIS and Zoological Society of London)
- oneFish Community Directory
(Support Unit for International Fisheries and Aquatic Research - SIFAR)
Directory of fisheries research and development information. Searchable
by keyword and browseable by subject, ecosystem, geography, or species.
- Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
(Rice University Center for Conservation Biology)
- WWW Virtual Library:
Fish (Mark Rosenstein)
- WindandSea:
The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Locator (NOAA Central
Library) Includes section on fish.
- California and the Pacific Northwest
- Species