Library of FDA and Non-FDA
Seafood, Seafood Safety, and Ichthyology Resources

FDA Seafood and Seafood Safety Resources

• FDA's Information for FDA-Regulated Industry and Industry Portal
  Note: This site replaces FDA's Publication 2 or "The Blue Book" which has been discontinued as of October 2002)
• FDA Guidance Documents and Publications for Seafood
• FDA/CFSAN Seafood HACCP Information
• FDA/CFSAN Seafood Information page
• FDA/CFSAN Searchable Seafood List
• FDA's Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE): Fish and Marketed Product Form Images, Species Identification Tools, and Taxonomic Information
• USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center: Extensive HAACP inforamtion and other seafood information sites. Co-sponsored by USDA, FDA, NAL, and FSIS

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Meetings and Conferences on Seafood and Seafood Safety

• Harmful Algae Management and Mitigation:
  • Program and Abstracts for the Second International Conference, 12-16 November 2001, Qingdao, China
  • Program and Abstracts for the First International Conference, 10-14 May 1999, Subic Bay, Philippines

Seafood and Fisheries Information:

• Alaska Deptpartment of Fish and Game, Commercial Fisheries Division
• Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute: This site contains several brochures providing guidance on the proper handling of seafood.
• American Fisheries Society
• Aquaculture Resources from the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Aquaculture Outlook from the Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This online version of the print newsletter of the same name is published twice a year. It examines the U.S. aquaculture industry: production, inventory, sales, prices, inputs, and trade of catfish, trout, tilapia, salmon, mollusks, crawfish, shrimp, ornamental fish and new species.
• Aquaculture Research Institute: interdisciplinary education, outreach services, internet-connected database searching, and research activities in fish culture, genetics, nutrition, pathology, waste management and marketing.
• AquaNIC Aquaculture Information Network Center
• Atlantic Salmon Federation
• Blue Crab Archives (maintained by Steve Zinski)
• Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences from the National Research Council of Canada.
• Catfish Production and Catfish Processing: USDA Reports from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Agricultural Statistics Board
• EPA Consumption Advisories for non-commercial fish and wildlife from the US Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water
• FISH FAQ: Most Freqeuntly asked questions about fish from National Marine Fisheries Service
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
  • FAO Fisheries Information
  • FIGIS Fisheries Topic and Issues Fact Sheets
• Fish Facts! from the Maryland Department of Natural Resources
• Fish in the Electronic Zoo: an Extensive Listing of Sites on Aquaculture and Ichthyology
• Fisheries Information and Marketing Names for Fish and Seafood in Australia from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in Australia
• WorldFish Center (previously ICLARM) and part of CGIAR
• The Fish Highway: a multi-lingual source of information on fish commerce
• Fish Link Central
• Georges Bank Information (GLOBEC)
• Salmon Nutritients and Other Salmon Information from Gold Seal Seafoods
• Gulf of Mexico Program
• Hawaiian Seafood Buyers Guide
• ICES: International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
• ISSC: Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference
• Information about the Kosher status of fish
• Questions and Answers About Crabs and Oysters from the From the State of Maryland Department of Agriculture: Seafood and Aquaculture
• National Aquarium in Baltimore
• National Marine Fisheries Service
  • Fishery Market News and Price Information
  • Landings by species and region for commercial fisheries
  • The Fisheries Statistics and Economics Division
• North Atlantic Fisheries College in the Shetlands, UK
• Seafood Network Information Center: This site contains information on the Seafood HACCP Alliance for Education and Training, Guidance and Regulation (including the text of several FDA documents) and the University of California seafood publications.
  • Information on subscribing to the Seafood HACCP Mailing List (Listserv).
• SeaGrant Home Page and Information from various SeaGrant Programs.
  SeaGrant National College Network
  • Alaska SeaGrant and the Alaska SeaGrant Publications/Video Catalog
  • MarylandSeaGrant
  • Oregon SeaGrant
  • The National SeaGrant Repository at the University of Rhode Island
  • SeaGrant Media Center: News and Information on Marine Science Research at the University of Maryland
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Home Page and Fisheries Information
• World Aquaculture: Species - this site was developed by Jeff Batis and Anwar Kaelin, students at Taos, NM, High School, as part of the 1998 ThinkQuest Contest
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Ichthyology and Fish Nomenclature and Taxonomy Information:

• American Socitety of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• The eSeFDee Marine Sciences Portal for the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean: taxonomic and other information
• The Fish Collection at the School of Fisheries, University of Washington
• FishBase WWW: a web-based version of the FishBase CD-ROM produced in conjunction with members of a consortium: See the FishBase page for information on the database and CD-ROM version
• FishNet2 FishNet is a "distributed information system" that uses DiGIR and XML protocols to link together the specimen records of museums and other institutions in a seamless information-retrieval system
• Division of Fishes or Fish Collection on-line search at the Smithsonian Institution
• Fish FAQ from the from the NMFS/Northeast Fisheries Science Center Woods Hole Laboratory, NOAA
• Ichthyology Department and Newsletter of Systematic Ichthyology and the Catalog of Fishes (William N. Eschmeyer, Editor, published by the California Academy of Sciences) at the California Academy of Sciences
• Ichthyology Information at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates
• Ichthyology Department at the Texas Natural Science Center
• ITIS: the Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• Marine Biology Sites from Yahoo
• National Marine Fisheries Service Pages from all laboratories and centers
  • Seafood Taxonomy tools from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, NOAA
• Nonindigenous Fish Species from the U.S. Geological Survey
• North American Native Fishes Association
• Species 2000: A comnpendium of species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity

Guest Images of Fish and Seafood Products:

• Image Gallery from Nation Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS/NOAA)
• NMFS's Alaska Science Center's image gallery page
• Seafood Image Links from the Seafood Network Information Center
• Fish Identification: Florida's regulated fish and their look-alikes
• Trout and Salmon Pictorial Identificaton Guide from the Great Lakes Sports Fishing Council (GLSFC)
• Fish Images and other information on the British Columbia Creature Page