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Fish
Academic Programs
North Atlantic Fisheries College of the
UK - a college specifically founded and run to improve the qualifications
of modern commercial fishermen
http://www.nafc.ac.uk/
Oregon State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife
http://fw.oregonstate.edu/
Pelagic Fisheries Research Program of the University of Hawaii
http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/PFRP/pfrp1.html
Sea Grant College Programs
http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/colleges/index.html
Texas A&M University Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences
http://wfscnet.tamu.edu/
University of British Columbia's Fisheries Centre
http://www.fisheries.ubc.ca/
University of Rhode
Island Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Science
http://www.uri.edu/cels/favs/index.html
University of Washington College
of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
http://www.cofs.washington.edu/
Virginia Institute of Marine
Science Department of Fisheries Science
http://www.fisheries.vims.edu/
Associations and Societies
American Fisheries Society
http://www.fisheries.org/afs/
American Society of
Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
http://www.asih.org/
Bibliographies
Early life
history of fishes - a searchable index of more than 13,000 citations developed
by Dr. Robert Hoyt of Western Kentucky University and updated by Tom Kennedy of
Colorado State University. Developed in 1988 so good site for non-current references.
http://www.warnercnr.colostate.edu/~desnyder/elhsbib5.htm
Shark
bibliography - general references
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/references/references.htm
Whale shark
bibliography from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library
http://repositories.cdlib.org/sio/lib/bibliography/9/
Commercial Fish Information
Fishery
Economics Subject Page - maintained as a service of the International Association of Marine and
Aquatic Science Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC) and the Centre for the Economics and
Management of Aquatic Resources (CEMARE), University of Portsmouth
http://www.port.ac.uk/research/cemare/usefullinks/
Halibut - International
Pacific Halibut Commission
http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/default.htm
The
Lobster Institute of the University of Maine at Orono
http://www.lobsterinstitute.org/
Regional Fishery Councils - mission is to develop management plans for
commercial species of marine life in implementation of United States fisheries
laws
http://www.nefmc.org/ (New England Fishery
Management Council)
http://www.mafmc.org/mid-atlantic/mafmc.htm
(Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council)
http://www.safmc.net
(South Atlantic Fishery Management Council)
http://www.gulfcouncil.org/
(Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council)
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/npfmc/
(North Pacific Fishery Management Council)
http://www.pcouncil.org/ (Pacific
Fishery Management Council)
http://www.wpcouncil.org/
(Western Pacific Fishery Management Council)
http://www.caribbeanfmc.com
(Caribbean Fishery Management Council)
Seafood.com provides news, buying and
selling services, expert advice, consulting resources, etc.
http://www.seafood.com/
Facts and Frequently Asked Questions
Fish Data presented by
StreamNet, a consortium of wildlife agencies and tribes of the Pacific
Northwest - includes databases, photo library, and glossary
http://www.streamnet.org/online_data.html
FishWatch: U.S. Seafood Facts
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch/
NOAA Fisheries Service Fish FAQ
- a bouillabaisse of fascinating facts about fish
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/faq/index.html
Government Fisheries Organizations
Argentina Secretariat of Agriculture, Cattle Ranches, Fishes and Food (SAGPyA) - select PESCA Y ACUICULTURA
http://www.sagpya.mecon.gov.ar/
Australia Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
http://www.daff.gov.au/
Belize Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
http://www.agriculture.gov.bz/
Brazil Special Secretary for Aquaculture and Fisheries
http://www.presidencia.gov.br/estrutura_presidencia/seap/
Canada Fisheries and Oceans
http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/home-accueil_e.htm
China Fisheries
Home Page - developed in cooperation with the NOAA Central
Library and a fisheries representative of the Peoples' Republic of China
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/china/index.htm
Costa Rican Institute of Fisheries and Aquaculture
http://www.infoagro.go.cr/incopesca/
Ecuador Subsecretary of Fisheries Resources
http://www.subpesca.gov.ec/
El Salvador Center for Fisheries Development (CENDEPESCA)
http://www.mag.gob.sv/pesca_acuicultura.php
European Union Directorate-General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/fisheries/index_en.htm
Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
http://www.fao.org/fi/website/FIRetrieveAction.do?dom=topic&fid=16000
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Seafood Information and Resources
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/seafood1.html
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/oicphone.html
(Outreach and Information Center)
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/rfe0.html
(Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia)
http:/vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/seaintro.html
(search the seafood list)
Icelandic Ministry of Fisheries
http://www.fisheries.is/
Japan Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (English version)
http://www.maff.go.jp/e/index.html
Korea Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (English version)
http://www.momaf.go.kr/english/main/main.asp
Mexico National Commission of Aquaculture and Fisheries (CONAPESCA)
http://www.conapesca.sagarpa.gob.mx/wb/
New South Wales Fishing and Aquaculture
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fisheries
New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries
http://www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/default.htm
NOAA Fisheries Service/National Marine Fisheries Service
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
http://www.ffa.int/
Peru Vice Ministry of Fisheries
http://www.produce.gob.pe/mipe/
Peru National Foundation of Fishing Development (FONDEPES)
http://www.fondepes.gob.pe/
Taiwan Fisheries Agency
http://www.fa.gov.tw/eng/guide/guide.php
Venezuela Development Foundation for Farming, Fishing and Compatible Forestry (FONDAFA)
http://www.fondafa.gob.ve/
Venezuela National Institute of Fishes and Aquaculture (INAPESCA)
http://www.inapesca.gob.ve
Western Australia Department of Fisheries
http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/
Habitat
Fisheries and Habitat Conservation of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service
http://www.fws.gov/fisheries/
Gray's Reef
National Marine Sanctuary habitat page
http://www.graysreef.nos.noaa.gov/profile.html
Gulf of Maine Coastal Program
of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service - includes links to information about habitat
protection and identification projects, technical reports, habitat maps, etc.
http://www.fws.gov/northeast/gulfofmaine/
Mangrove Replenishment Initiative
- a private site detailing the problems of regenerating the mangrove swamp
habitat
http://mangrove.org/video/mri.html
NOAA Fisheries Service
Office of Habitat Conservation - links to publications, information about essential fish
habitat, wetlands, anadromous fish, marine protected areas, National Wetlands Mitigation Action Plan, etc.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/index.html
Ichthyology
Early Women Ichthyologists
paper by Patricia Stocking Brown in a 1994 issue of Environmental Biology of Fishes
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/uploadedFiles/Education/Women%20in%20Ichthyology.pdf
Guide
to the Animal Kingdom for students and educators from Thomson Reuters
http://www.biologybrowser.org/animalguide.html
Ichthyology Department of Harvard
University Museum of Comparative Zoology
http://www.mcz.harvard.edu/Departments/Fish/
Ichthyology from the University of Florida Museum of Natural History
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Links/Links.htm (Ichthyology links)
Ichthyology resources
from the Ichthyology Dept. at the California Academy of Sciences
http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/
Links
Congressional Research Service "Marine" Reports
http://cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/Marine/
Fish Advisories from the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/fish
Fisheries Library, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization
http://www.fao.org/fi/website/FIRetrieveAction.do?dom=org&xml=FBL_prog.xml
Fisheries Reference Resources from Humboldt State University Library
http://library.humboldt.edu/~rls/resfish.htm
Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology,
Shark, and Sawfish links
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/links/links.htm
OneFish
http://www.onefish.org/global/index.jsp
Marketing
GLOBEFISH - the unit of the United Nations Food and Agriculture
Organization Fisheries Department responsible for information on international fish markets and fish trade
http://www.globefish.org/
Seafood.com - seafood marketing information
http://www.seafood.com/
Urner Barry
- links to seafood marketing news, fish posters/wall charts, single species lithographs (under Products & Services), etc.
http://www.urnerbarry.com
NOAA Fisheries Service/National Marine Fisheries Service
Aquaculture - links to
aquaculture policies of the Department of Commerce and NOAA, DOC/NOAA
Aquaculture Information Center site, National Aquaculture Act of 1980, etc.
http://aquaculture.noaa.gov/
Browse NOAA Fisheries Service
http://www.lib.noaa.gov/docs/browser/browse3.html#FISH
Bycatch
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/bycatch.htm
Congressional Research Service -
Summaries
of Major Fisheries Laws implemented by NOAA Fisheries Service
http://www.cnie.org/NLE/CRSreports/legislative/leg-11.cfm
Education
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/education
Fish Facts - a website that summarizes NOAA Fisheries
management actions for a number of important national and regional fisheries issues
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishfacts/index.htm
Fisheries glossary
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st4/documents/FishGlossary.pdf
FishWatch - U.S. Seafood Facts
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch/index.htm
Grants
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/mb/grants/
Historical information - photos, historical articles, etc.
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/index.html
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/timeline/1870.html (timeline)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/stories/legacy/legacy2.html
(Baird's Legacy)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/history/stories/whistory.html
(Woods Hole: The Early Years)
Home page - links to headquarters
offices, field offices, field laboratories, publications, full-text version of Sustainable
Fisheries Act, etc.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/
International interests
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/international.htm
Legislation - links to some
resource laws that guide NOAA Fisheries Service
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/legislation.htm
Living Marine Stewardship
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/sfweb/
(sustaining fisheries: highly migratory species, domestic fisheries, regulatory services,
partnerships and communications, seafood inspection)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/
(protecting marine species: species information, permits & authorizations, laws & policies,
U.S. & international programs, education, publications)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/
(conserving marine habitat: habitat protection, habitat restoration, ecosystem
assessment, etc.)
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/
(science and technology: fisheries statistics, assessment & monitoring, economics & social
analysis, science information, marine ecosystems)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ole/
(law enforcement: Northeast Division, Southeast Division, Alaska Division, Northwest Division, Southwest Division,
Pacific Islands Division)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ia/
(international affairs: bilateral arrangements, international agreements, international bycatch, current challenges,
links to foreign government fisheries sites)
Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and
Management Act
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/magact/
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/msa2007/
(reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act)
Permits and authorizations
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/regulationspermits.htm
(NOAA Fisheries Service Permit Portal)
Recreational Fishing Services
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/PartnershipsCommunications/recfish/
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/PartnershipsCommunications/recfish/strategy.htm (Recreational Fisheries Strategic Plan)
Regional offices
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/regional.htm
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/ (Alaska Regional Office)
http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/ (Northwest Regional Office)
http://www.fpir.noaa.gov/ (Pacific Islands Regional Office)
http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/ (Southwest Regional Office)
http://sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/ (Southeast Regional Office)
http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nero/ (Northeast Regional Office)
Regulations
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/regulations.htm
Science centers - links to websites
of the Alaska, Northwest, Pacific Islands, Southwest, Southeast, and Northeast Science Centers
as well as the individual labs and field stations
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/science.htm
Seafood & Health
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/seafood.htm
Statistics - commercial fishery landings,
foreign trade information, fishery market news, links to full text recent issues of Fisheries
of the United States and other publications, etc.
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/index.html
Strandings
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/strandings.htm
Trade and commercial services
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/PartnershipsCommunications/tradecommercial/index.html
Photographs
NOAA Photo Library - see the Fisheries Collection, Northeast
Fisheries Science Center Historic Photo Collection, National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection,
National Undersea Research Program Collection, Coral Kingdom Collection, Sanctuaries Collection, etc.
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/
Posters
Fish identification charts and posters
from Windsor Nature Discovery
http://nature-discovery.com/home/nd1/smartlist_34/fish_posters.html
NOAA's Life of the Ocean Posters: marine mammals of the western hemisphere, fishes of North American waters,
mollusks and crustaceans of the coastal United States, and sea turtles of the world available from the U.S. Government Printing Office
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00187-4
(Marine Mammals of the Western Hemisphere)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00186-6
(Sea Turtles of the World)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00182-3
(Marine Fishes of the North Atlantic)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00181-5
(Marine Fishes of the Gulf and South Atlantic)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00185-8
(Fishes of the Great Lakes)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00183-1
(Marine Fishes of the North Pacific)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00184-0
(Marine Fishes of the California Current and Adjacent Waters)
http://bookstore.gpo.gov/actions/GetPublication.do?stocknumber=003-020-00188-2
(Mollusks and Crustaceans of the Coastal United States)
Publications
Alaska
Fishery Research Bulletin of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game
http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/pubs/afrb/afrbhome.php
Aquaculture, Fisheries,
& Fish Science - related journal and books titles available from Wiley
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-351864.html
Billfish Newsletter
of Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service - an annual newsletter
that includes information on such species as marlin, sailfish, and swordfish (issues back to 1995)
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=FRD&id=1199&ParentMenuId=32
FishNews - an automated,
email-based newsletter that provides electronic notification of important actions,
rules, policies, and programs. FishNews is coordinated by the Office of Constituent
Services, NOAA Fisheries Service.
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishnews.htm
NOAA Fisheries Service publications: links to popular NMFS publications, full text articles
from recent issues of NMFS journals, publications of NMFS headquarters and regional offices, etc.
http://spo.nmfs.noaa.gov/
(Scientific Publications Office)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/publications/
(Office of Protected Resources)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/habitatconservation/publications/hcpub.htm
(Office of Habitat Conservation)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/restoration/publications/tech_glines.html
(Restoration Center, Office of Habitat Conservation)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/habitat/ead/readingroom.htm
(Ecosystem Assessment Division Coral Reef Reading Room, Office of Habitat Conservation)
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/tm_search.html
(NOAA Technical Memoranda, NMFS Series, Office of Science and Technology)
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st5/index.html
(Fisheries Economics & Social Sciences Program, Office of Science and Technology)
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/stutilities/stdocumentsearch/
(search for documents - Office of Science and Technology)
http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/st1/publications.html
(Fisheries Statistics Division, Office of Science and Technology)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms/Linkpages/documents.htm
(Atlantic Highly Migratory Species, Office of Sustainable Fisheries)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/state_federal/state_federal.htm
(State/Federal Services, Office of Sustainable Fisheries)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/domes_fish/index.htm
(Domestic Fisheries, Office of Sustainable Fisheries)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ia
(International Affairs, NOAA Fisheries Service)
http://www.seafood.nmfs.noaa.gov/Publications.htm (Seafood Inspection Program)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/
(Northeast Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsclibrary/back.htm
(Background of Northeast Fisheries Science Center documents)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsclibrary/nmfsfnec.htm
(search for NEFSC documents)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/habitat/efh/
(Essential fish habitat source documents - Northeast Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/nefsc/saw/
(Northeast Regional Stock Assessment Workshop documents - Northeast Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nero/
(Northeast Regional Office)
http://www.nero.noaa.gov/nero/outreach/index.html#pub
(NERO Outreach & Communications publications)
http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/articlesandpublications.jsp
(Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
http://www8.nos.noaa.gov/nccos/ccfhr/publications.aspx
(Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research) - search for publications 1948-present
http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/publications/index.asp
(Galveston Laboratory)
http://galveston.ssp.nmfs.gov/research/fisheryecology/publications/index.asp
(Galveston Fishery Ecology Branch)
http://swr.nmfs.noaa.gov/
(Southwest Regional Office)
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/ (Southwest Fisheries Science Center: select Publications)
http://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/PubBIN/qrypublications.asp?ParentMenuId=32
(Southwest Fisheries Science Center Technical Memorandums Search)
http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/research/globec/publications.html
(U.S. Globec and Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory)
http://www.fpir.noaa.gov/ (Pacific Islands Regional Office: see Public Documents)
http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/library/pubs.php
(Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/publication.php
(Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center staff publications)
http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/library/hlpubs.html
(Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Library)
http://www.pifsc.noaa.gov/wpacfin/central_pubs.php
(Central West Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/publications/index.cfm
(Northwest Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.nwr.noaa.gov/Publications/Index.cfm
(Northwest Regional Office)
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/nmml/library/publish.php
(National Marine Mammal Laboratory)
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/Publications/default.htm
(Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/race/behavioral/pubs_auth_fbe.htm
(Fisheries Behavioral Ecology - Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
http://www.fakr.noaa.gov/
(Alaska Regional Office)
Species Information
Biological Profiles from
the Florida Museum of Natural History
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Education/bioprofile.htm
California Marine Sportfish Identification
from the California Dept. of Fish and Game
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/msfindx0.asp
Catalog of Fishes
from the California Academy of Sciences
http://www.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatsearch.html
Census of Marine Life - a global network
of researchers in more than 80 nations engaged in a 10-year scientific initiative to assess and explain the diversity,
distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans.
Site is maintained by the Office of Marine Programs at the University of Rhode Island.
http://www.coml.org/coml.htm
CephBase - taxonomic data, distribution,
images, videos, predator and prey data, etc. for all living species of cephalopods from
the University of Texas Medical Branch
http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/
Endangered Species Act information
from NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/esa/
Fish and invertebrate
species photo gallery from NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center
http://www.afsc.noaa.gov/race/media/photo_gallery/speciesID.htm
Fish Collection of the University of Washington in Seattle
http://artedi.fish.washington.edu/
Fish Finder of the North Carolina
Division of Marine Fisheries - illustrations of many fish species found in North Carolina estuaries and
continental shelf and slope areas
http://www.ncfisheries.net/fishfind/fishfin2.htm
FishBase - a global information system on fishes searchable by scientific name,
common name, country, ecosystem, topic, etc.
Also includes a glossary.
http://www.fishbase.org/home.htm
Gray's Reef National Marine Sanctuary Illustrated Field Guide
http://graysreef.noaa.gov/fishguide.html
Gray's Reef photographs
http://graysreef.noaa.gov/pictures.html
Grunion Fact Sheet
from the California Department of Fish and Game
http://www.dfg.ca.gov/marine/grnindx3.asp
Halibut - site of the International
Pacific Halibut Commission. IPHC is responsible for research on and management of the stocks of
Pacific halibut of Canada and the U.S.
http://www.iphc.washington.edu/halcom/default.htm
Integrated Taxonomic Information System - includes
documented taxonomic information of flora and fauna from both aquatic and terrestrial habitats.
The ITIS is the result of a partnership of federal agencies formed to satisfy their mutual needs
for scientifically credible taxonomic information.
http://www.itis.gov/
NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources - species information page
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/species/
Ocean Biogeographic Information System - a project of the Census of Marine Life
http://www.iobis.org/
Salmon and Steelhead Habitat
Inventory and Assessment Program from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and
the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
http://wdfw.wa.gov/hab/sshiap/
Salmon hatchery questions & answers from NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center
http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/resources/search_faq.cfm?faqmaincatid=3
Shark research
site from the Florida Museum of Natural History
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/sharks.htm
Sharks
- Mote Marine Laboratory Center for Shark Research
http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=SharkResearch&category=Shark%20Research
Sharks - Pelagic Shark Research
Foundation
http://www.pelagic.org
Sharks of Delaware and Maryland -
information provided courtesy of the Graduate College of Marine Studies at the University of Delaware
http://www.beach-net.com/Shark.html
Species Identification and Data Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
http://www.fao.org/fi/website/FIRetrieveAction.do?dom=org&xml=sidp.xml&xp_nav=1
Species Profiles:
Life Histories and Environmental Requirements of Coastal Fishes and Invertebrates of the U.S.
- full text access to digital copies of the original publications. The series
was produced by the National Wetlands Research Center of the U.S. Geological Survey.
http://www.nwrc.usgs.gov/publications/specindex.htm
Stingrays
from Mote Marine Laboratory
http://www.mote.org/index.php?src=gendocs&link=Stingrays&category=Shark%20Research&submenu=INFO
Statistics
Fishery Statistics Programme of FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
http://www.fao.org/fishery/statistics/programme/en
Guide To Sources For Fisheries Statistics from Fisheries-Oceanography Library, University of Washington
http://www.lib.washington.edu/fish/subjects/fishstat.html
NMFS Fisheries Statistics Division home page - commercial fishery landings,
foreign trade information, fishery market news, links to full text recent issues of Fisheries
of the United States and other publications, etc.
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st1/index.html
General Reference Information
Area codes
http://www.whitepages.com/10001/area_codes
Countries of the World from Infoplease -
links to information about countries around the world
http://www.infoplease.com/countries.html
Dictionaries - OneLook dictionary search
http://www.onelook.com/
FedLaw - federal laws and regulations
online
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm
FedWorld - a program of the U.S. Department of Commerce
for locating government information. The site is developed and maintained by National Technical Information Service.
http://www.fedworld.gov/
Maps - Mapquest personalized maps -
street level maps, interactive atlas, driving directions, etc.
http://www.mapquest.com/
Maps - Perry-Castaneda Library online map collection
of the University of Texas at Austin. Includes current interest maps, general interest maps, historical maps, etc.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
Roget's
Thesaurus
http://www.bartleby.com/62/
Telephone
directory - internet yellow pages, white pages, etc.
http://www.switchboard.com/
Thomas - Legislative information on the internet - a service of the Library of Congress
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Wikipedia - the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The World
Factbook of the Central Intelligence Agency - information about countries,
oceans, locations, etc.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html
Zip codes
- United States Postal Service Zip+4 code lookup
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp
Geoscience
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
http://www.acsm.net/
American Geological Institute - links to sites of
member societies and other earth science related sites
http://www.agiweb.org/
American Geophysical Union
http://www.agu.org/
Association of American
State Geologists - links to sites of all 50 state geologists
http://www.stategeologists.org/
Earth science resource links
in various categories including academic, government, and commercial. Developed and maintained
by the Illinois State Geological Survey
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/education/earthsci/tofc.shtml
Earth sciences (and map library) resources
from University of California Berkeley Library - submit questions to staff via this site
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/EarthLinks.html
Geodetic resources from
NOAA's National Geodetic Survey - links to sites of government, academic, and private organizations
from around the world
http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/geodetic_links.shtml
Geomagnetism
- surface, ocean, airborne, and satellite data available from NOAA's National Geophysical
Data Center. Link to general information and FAQ pages. Contact staff with questions about
the earth's main field, space weather, and marine magnetics.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/
Geoscience Departments
WWW Directory for U. S. and Canada from the University of South Dakota
http://www.usd.edu/esci/geodepts.html
Global Volcanism Program of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
http://www.volcano.si.edu/
Natural hazards
of NASA's Earth Observatory - images of recent geological hazards and disasters,
with a link to archived images
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/
Natural hazards - earthquakes,
volcanoes, landslides, floods, etc., U.S. Geological Survey
http://www.usgs.gov/hazards/
Natural hazards data and imagery -
earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, tropical cyclones, etc., NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/hazard/
University of Washington
Department of Earth and Space Sciences - many NOAA related projects
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/
Visible Earth - NASA's catalog of images and animations of our planet
http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/
Volcano World from Oregon State University
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/
Glossaries
Atmospheric-Related Sciences Glossaries
Arctic climatology and meteorology glossary -
prepared for the Arctic Climatology Project Arctic Meteorology and Climate Atlas (in English and Russian)
http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/glossary/
Atmospheric
Chemistry Glossary developed by Sam Houston State University
http://www.shsu.edu/~chemistry/Glossary/glos.html
Carbon Dioxide and
Climate Glossary developed by Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CDIAC program
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/glossary.html
Climate
Change Terms Glossary from U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://yosemite.epa.gov/oar/globalwarming.nsf/content/glossary.html
Climate Glossary
of National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outreach/glossary.shtml
Climate Glossary
of NOAA's Climate Program Office
http://www.climate.noaa.gov/index.jsp?pg=page_glossary.jsp?alpha=all
Federal
Meteorological Handbook No. 1 (Surface Weather Observations and Reports) Glossary
http://www.ofcm.gov/fmh-1/pdf/M-APNDXA.pdf
Fire Weather Forecast
Terminology of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Pendleton, Oregon
http://newweb.wrh.noaa.gov/pdt/forecast/fireWeatherGlossary.php
Floodplain
glossary of terms from Nebraska's Lancaster County
http://lancaster.ne.gov/city/pworks/watrshed/mfptf/meetings/2002/031902/pdf/fpgloss.pdf
Floodplain Management Glossary from the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
https://www.nwo.usace.army.mil/hydro/floodplain/definitions.html
Global Change Master
Directory List of Earth Science Acronyms, Glossaries, and Gazetteers from NASA
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/Resources/FAQs/acronyms.html
Glossary of ENSO
(El Nino/Southern Oscillation) Terms from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/ENSO/enso.glossary.html
Glossary of Meteorological Terms from the
Australian Government's Bureau of Meteorology
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/glossary/
Glossary of Meteorology
from the American Meteorological Society
http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary
Glossary of Wildland Fire Terminology
of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group
http://www.nwcg.gov/pms/pubs/glossary/index.htm
Hurricane Terms
from Federal Emergency Management Agency
http://www.fema.gov/hazard/hurricane/hu_terms.shtm
Hurricane Terms - National
Hurricane Center/Tropical Prediction Center Glossary of Terms
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutgloss.shtml
Hydrologic Terms Glossary from National Weather Service
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc/resources/glossary/default.html
National Weather Service Glossary
http://www.weather.gov/glossary/
Ozone Depletion Glossary
developed by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/ozone/defns.html
Radar and Synthetic Aperture Radar Glossary
developed by the European Space Agency
http://envisat.esa.int/dataproducts/asar/CNTR5-2.htm
Snow Glossary of the National Snow and Ice
Data Center
http://nsidc.org/cgi-bin/words/topic.pl?snow
Solar-Terrestrial
Terms Glossary developed by NOAA's Space Environment Laboratory
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/GLOSSARY/glossary.html
Weather Forecast Glossary compiled
by San Francisco Weather Service Forecast Office - many terms northern California specific
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/afd-guide.php
Weather Terms for Storm Spotters -
a comprehensive glossary of weather terms for storm spotters from the National Weather Service
Forecast Office, Norman, Oklahoma
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/glossary.php
Weather Terms Glossary compiled
by New York Weather Service Forecast Office - many season specific terms
http://www.weca.org/nws-terms.html
Earth Sciences Glossaries
Biology/Paleontology Glossary
developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Subjects covered are phylogenetics,
geology, biochemistry, cell biology, ecology, life history, zoology, botany, and paleogeography.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary.html
Dictionary of Geologic Terms from Geotech
http://www.geotech.org/survey/geotech/dictiona.html
Geologic Glossary from Houghton Mifflin's GeologyLink
http://college.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary.html
Geology
Glossary from Indiana Geological Survey
http://igs.indiana.edu/geology/glossary/listEntireGlossary.cfm
Glacial
Geology Glossary from Montana State University
http://gemini.oscs.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/glossary.htm
Glossary
of Dinosaurs/Paleontology/Geology from a Disney site - enchantedlearning.com. Scroll
to the bottom for links to information about astronomy, the Earth, geology, oceans, volcanoes, etc.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/glossary/indexg.shtml
(Visual) Glossary of Earthquake Terms
from the Earthquake Hazards Program, USGS
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learning/glossary.php
Gravity/Magnetic Glossary
from Integrated Geophysics Corporation
http://www.igcworld.com/gm_glos.html
Photo Glossary of Volcanic Terms of
the Volcano Hazards Program, USGS
http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/images/pglossary/index.php
Seismology/Geology Glossary
from the Southern California Earthquake Data Center
http://www.data.scec.org/glossary.html
Volcanic
and Geologic Terms Glossary from Oregon State University
http://volcano.oregonstate.edu/education/glossary.html
Ecological-Related Sciences Glossaries
Aquaculture Glossary of the
Food and Agriculture Organization Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
http://www.fao.org/fi/glossary/aquaculture/default.asp
Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive
Plant Glossary of the University of Florida Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants
http://plants.ifas.ufl.edu/glossary
Biogeography Glossary
of Radford University
http://www.runet.edu/%7Eswoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/glossary.html
Biology/Paleontology Glossary
developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Subjects covered are phylogenetics,
geology, biochemistry, cell biology, ecology, life history, zoology, botany, and paleogeography.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/glossary.html
Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Glossary
of NOAA's National Ocean Service
http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/glossary/index.html
Fish Terms Glossary
from StreamNet, a consortium of Northwest wildlife agencies and tribal governments
http://www.streamnet.org/pub-ed/ff/Glossary/glossaryfish.html
Fisheries Glossary of FAO's Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
http://www.fao.org/fi/glossary/default.asp
Fisheries Glossary of NOAA Fisheries Service
http://www.st.nmfs.gov/st4/documents/FishGlossary.pdf
Fisheries Technical Terms of Northeast Fisheries
Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Service
http://www.nefsc.noaa.gov/techniques/tech_terms.html
National
Resources Inventory Glossary developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/NRI/1997/summary_report/glossary.html
Oceanic-Related Sciences Glossaries
Glossary of Chemical (Oceanography) Terms from
Faculty of Chemical Technology, University of Split, Croatia
http://www.ktf-split.hr/periodni/en/abc/a.html
Glossary of Coastal Terminology
prepared by Washington State's Department of Ecology
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/text/glossary.html
Glossary of Physical Oceanography
and Related Disciplines from Texas A&M University
http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/paleo/ocean/ocean.html
Glossary of (Physical Oceanography) Scientific Terms from University of Alberta, Canada
http://taylor.math.ualberta.ca/%7Ebruce/glossary.html
Marine
Biology Glossary from State University of New York at Stony Brook
http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/marinebio/glossary.html
Marine
Ecology Glossary from Rice University - excerpted from The State of the Bay: A
Characterization of the Galveston Bay Ecosystem. This publication was produced
by the Galveston Bay National Estuary Program.
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Galveston/Glossary/glossary.html
Oceanographic
Terms Glossary developed by Texas A&M University
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/glossary.htm
Ocean Surface Currents
Glossary from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/glossary.html
Optical
Oceanography Glossary from the University of Washington Mechanical
Engineering Department
http://faculty.washington.edu/mccor/glossary.htm
Tide and Current Glossary
developed by the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services of
NOAA's National Ocean Service
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/publications/glossary2.pdf
Satellite and Remote Sensing Glossaries
Earth
Observing System Data and Information System Glossary of terms and
acronyms from NASA
http://www-v0ims.gsfc.nasa.gov/v0ims/glossary.of.terms.html
Glossary of Terms for Sensors & Data Systems
http://www.sensorland.com/GlossaryPage001.html
Looking at Earth From Space (Satellite,
Space, Earth Science, and Meteorology Glossary) developed by NASA for grades 7-12
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/TRC/glossary.htm
Radar Glossary from Argos Press
http://www.argospress.com/Resources/radar/
Remote
Sensing Glossary developed by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
http://ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/glossary/index_e.php
Remote Sensing
Glossary from the University of Nebraska
http://www.casde.unl.edu/glossary/index.php
Water Resource Glossaries
Water-Related Terms Glossary
from the Australian Water Association
http://www.awa.asn.au/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Glossary&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5185
Water Resource Terms
Glossary from the Edwards Aquifer Home Page
http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/glossary.html
Water Science Glossary of Terms
from USGS
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/dictionary.html
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