Partnership
United Nations Co-sponsoring ASFA Partners
The UN Co-sponsoring Partners, besides input preparation, also inform the strategic direction of ASFA, helping the partnership to support UN wide goals related to all aspects of aquatic sciences and resources.
International ASFA Partners
The International ASFA Partners create records on OpenASFA for literature published within their geographic or subject area, including their own publications.
- Scientific Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea (ADRIAMED)
- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission secretariat (IOTC)
- The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
- Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
- Pacific Islands Marine Resources Information System (PIMRIS)
- Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Secretariat (SEAFDEC)
- Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
- Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
- WorldFish Center
National ASFA Partners
The National ASFA Partners contribute to ASFA by producing OpenASFA records for the literature published within their own countries.
- Marine and Coastal Research Institute “Jose Benito Vives de Andreis” (INVEMAR), Colombia
- Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Argentina
- Okavango Research Institute, Botswana
- Universidade de São Paulo Instituto Oceanografico (IO/USP), Brazil
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada / Pêches et Océans Canada, Canada
- Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (IFOP), Chile
- National Marine Data and Information Service (NMDIS), China
- Centre de Recherches Océanologiques (CRO), Côte d'Ivoire
- Centro de Investigaciones Pesqueras (CIP), Cuba
- Instituto Nacional de Pesca (INP), Ecuador
- Egyptian National Oceanographic Data Center / National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt
- Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), France
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), Greece
- Marine Research Institute (MRI), Iceland
- National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO), India
- Centre for Scientific Documentation and Information / Indonesian Institute of Sciences (PDII-LIPI), Indonesia
- Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute (IFSRI), Iran
- Marine Institute, Ireland
- Societá Italiana di Biologia Marina S.I.B.M. ONLUS, Italy
- National Research Institute of Fisheries Science (Fisheries Research Agency, FRA), Japan
- Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya
- Korean Institute of Ocean Science and Technology Institute (KIOST), Republic of Korea
- Living Aquatic Resources Research Center (LARReC), Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia
- Institut Mauritanien de Recherches Océanographiques et des Pêches (IMROP), Mauritania
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
- Institut National de Recherche Halieutique (INRH), Morocco
- Instituto Nacional de Hidrografia e Navegação (INAHINA), Mozambique
- National Marine Information and Research Centre (NatMIRC), Namibia
- National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research (NIFFR), Nigeria
- Institute of Marine Research (IMR), Norway
- Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), Peru
- College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences - University of the Philippines Visayas, Philippines
- Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Portugal
- National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (NMFRI), Poland
- Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Russian Federation
- Direction des Pêches Maritimes, Senegal
- Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO), Spain
- Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS), United Republic of Tanzania
- Chulalongkorn University - Department of Marine Science, Thailand
- Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM), Tunisia
- Central Fisheries Research Institute, Turkey
- National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFIRRI), Uganda
- Budgetary Organization "Methodological and Technological Centre of Aquaculture", Ukraine
- Freshwater Biological Association, United Kingdom
- Instituto de Investigaciones Pesqueras (IIP), Uruguay
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America
- Centre of Information and Statistics (CIS), Viet Nam
- Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (CVASU), Bangladesh
- Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin (IRHOB)/Centre Béninois de la Recherche Scientifique et de l'Innovation (CBRSI), Benin
ASFA Associates
ASFA Associates receive free access to the ASFA database in return for providing feedback and exploring ways to contribute to ASFA's goals. The scheme is intended to increase access to the full ASFA database published by ProQuest for institutions that would otherwise be unable to afford a subscription. To be eligible to join the ASFA Associates scheme, an institution must have an aquatic sciences, fisheries or aquaculture focus, and produce scientific or technical literature. Although they do not have the same responsibilities as Partners, ASFA Associates are expected to explore contributing to AFSA, either by adding ASFA records, permitting their institutional repository to be harvested, or by participating in one of ASFA’s working groups. In addition, all Associates are asked to complete a quarterly online survey on usage of the ASFA Database in order to provide feedback. The Associates scheme is therefore designed to act as a feeder to becoming a full ASFA Partner, giving institutions the benefits of free access to the database whilst allowing time to explore how they could contribute to the Partnership. Preference to joining ASFA Associates is given to small institutions in low and middle income countries, but institutions from high income countries can also apply. An institution’s appointment to the ASFA Associates scheme shall be mutually approved by FAO ASFA Secretariat, ProQuest and the national ASFA partner if present in the country. If your institution is interested and qualifies to become the ASFA Associate, contact the ASFA Secretariat: [email protected].
- Centre National de Recherche et de Développement de la Pêche et l'Aquaculture (CNRDPA), Algeria
- Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNComa), Argentina
- Lake Tanganyika Authority, Burundi
- Universidad del Magdalena, Colombia
- Centro de Investigaciones Marinas. Universidad de La Habana, Cuba
- TECHINFORMI, Georgia
- University of Cape Coast, Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Ghana
- Bioinformatics Centre, Department of Fisheries Economics and Statistics, College of Fisheries, Lembucherra, India
- ICAR Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute (CMFRI), India
- Moi University, Kenya
- Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment “BIOR”, Latvia
- National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority (NaFAA), Liberia
- Marine Biology Research Centre (MBRC), Libya
- Bunda Campus , Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Malawi
- Sam Nujoma Marine and Coastal Resources Research, University of Namibia (SANUMARC), Namibia
- Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Nigeria
- Altai Branch of VNIRO (AltaiNIRO), Russian Federation
- Atlantic Branch of VNIRO (AtlantNIRO), Russian Federation
- Baikal branch of VNIRO (BaikalNIRO), Russian Federation
- Branch for the Freshwater Fisheries of VNIRO (VNIIPRKh), Russian Federation
- Kerch State Maritime Technological University, Russian Federation
- Krasnoyarsk branch of VNIRO (NIIERV), Russian Federation
- Sakhalin branch of VNIRO (SakhNIRO), Russian Federation
- T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station, Russian Federation
- Tyumen branch of VNIRO (Gosrybcenter), Russian Federation
- Information Resource Centre, Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Samoa
- Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), Solomon Islands
- New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), South Africa
- Institute of Marine Research – Red Sea University, Sudan
- Lake Victoria Fisheries Organisation, Uganda
- Institute of Marine Biology of the NAS of Ukraine, Ukraine
- Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Uruguay
- Vietnam Institute of Oceanography (VNIO), Viet Nam
- Department of Fisheries. Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock, Zambia
The ASFA Publishing Partner
As well as being freely searchable on fao.org, OpenASFA records are exported to the ASFA Publishing partner (ProQuest) and included on the full ASFA database which at present contains over four million records. ASFA Partners and Associates receive complimentary access to the database published by ProQuest, who also makes the database commercially available to the public.
All ASFA Partners are represented on the ASFA Advisory Board, which meets regularly to review progress and decide the future direction of ASFA. The proceedings of the ASFA Advisory Board Meetings are published in the ASFA Advisory Board Meeting Reports.
Institutions interested in contributing literature to ASFA or in joining the ASFA Partnership should contact the ASFA Secretariat at FAO.
Contact us
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