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Museums
The International Congress of Maritime Museums
The International Congress of Maritime Museums is a professional guild of
associations, organizations and individuals in the maritime preservation
field, dedicated to international friendship, collegial cooperation and
mutual understanding.
Fisheries
and Maritime Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark
The Fisheries and Maritime Museum is the largest institution of its kind
in Denmark focusing on Danish fisheries and marine biology, the tidal
wetlands (Wadden Sea), west Jutland coastal shipping and the North Sea
offshore industries.
German
Maritime Museum
The German Maritime Museum contains exhibitions on Medieval
Shipping, Shipping in
the early modern period and Shipping in the industrial age as well as
exhibitions on fishing, whaling,
oceanography and polar research. Furthermore the Museum has a rich
collection of vessels in its open-air area.
Scottish Maritime Museum
The Scottish Maritime Museum contains exhibitions and collections that
tell the story of the great maritime tradition of Scotland. The Museum
operates three sites; Scottish Maritime Museum at Irvine; Clydebuilt at
Braehead, Glasgow and Denny Ship Model Experiment Tank at Dumbarton. The
sites are complemented by a collection of vessels that represent 150 years
of the working vessels of Scotland.
Fisheries
Museum of the Atlantic (a part of the Nova Scotia museum)
The Museum commemorates the fishing heritage of the Atlantic coast of
Canada. The Museum offers floating vessels at the wharfside, a host of
attractions, a maritime gift shop and restaurant.
Polish
Maritime Museum (The Fisheries Museum)
The Polish Maritime Museum, which encompass the Vistula river museum, the
Vistula lagoon museum and a fisheries museum.
Aalesunds Museum (The Fisheries Museum)
The Fisheries Museum, which is a branch of the Aalesunds Museum, reflects
important features in the history of the industry. The exhibits cover
production of medicinal cod-liver oil, barrel manufacture and the
preparation of, and trade in, salted fish and klipfish. Also on view is an
old-style general store.
Northumberland
Fisheries Museum
The Northumberland Fisheries Museum has its focus on preserving the rich
sea heritage and culture along the Northumberland Strait. The museum pays
tribute to the life and times of all involved, past and present, with the
fishing industry.
Sund Fisheries Museum
The Sund Fisheries Museum, has its basis it what was originally a private
collection. A Smithy and a collection of boat engines are the main
attractions of the museum.
Research centres, networks and universities
Centre for Regional and
Maritime Studies, Esbjerg, Denmark
The centre studies the interaction of the oceans and human society. With
expertise from historians, archaeologists, ethnologists, and social
anthropologists, the centre explores the interaction between humans and
the sea from the Neolithic to the Present.
Fishnet
Fishnet is a network of Danish Fisheries and Aquaculture scientists. It
coordinates the activities within five research networks; Fisheries and
Aquaculture Management and Economics (FAME), Fish Physiology, Biochemistry
and Food (FIBP), Maritime history and marine environmental Research School
(MARINERS), Sustainable Control of Fish Diseases in Aquaculture (SCOFDA)
Fisheries biology and Modelling: Scaling from Individual to Population
(SLIP). These networks contain a number of research projects and each
network has an associated research school. Fishnet and the research
schools arrange courses, workshops and lectures for Ph.D. students in
Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
University of Hull (The Maritime Historical Studies Centre)
The Maritime Historical Studies Centre (MHSC) works to improve knowledge
and understanding of the maritime dimensions of history. It endeavors to
achieve this aim by conducting research activity, and by making a
significant contribution to the History Department's teaching provision.
Tokyo
University of Marine Science and Technology (Faculty of Marine
Science)
The faculty of Marine science consists of four departments and the
objective is to investigate various problems in the fields from points of
view of fisheries, agriculture, science, engineering and social science.
The Department of Ocean Sciences specialize in marine biology, marine
environmental chemistry, physics and environmental modeling and ocean
environmental technology. The Department of Marine Biosciences specialize
in fisheries biology and aquaculture.
Federal German Fisheries Research Institute, Hamburg
The Research Centre is active in those fields of fisheries research which
are of direct relevance to political objectives of the Federal Ministry in
terms of national and international fisheries management, marine resources
conventions and fishery products. Research subjects range from the
monitoring of commercially harvested stocks over monitoring of
environmental impacts to fish processing and gear technology.
The Herring Network
The aim of the Herring Network is to provide most updated and recent
information on the state of the herring stocks of the world and some
general biological information on this important genus.
Resources
Environmental History of Aquaculture-Joint research project
This project seeks to document and analyze the origins and diffusion of
modern Western aquaculture from an environmental history perspective. You
can find here an annotated bibliography of both primary and secondary
sources on manifold aspects aquaculture from antiquity to the early
twentieth century - including scientific treatises, angling literature,
cookbooks for fish and shellfish, and magazines and journals of fisheries
and fish culture. There is also a collection of images of hatcheries,
activities, and aquaculture tools and instruments from Europe and North
America.
Journals, etc.
International
Journal of Maritime History
The IJMH is the Journal of the International Maritime
Economic History Association. It is a fully-refereed publication for
researchers concerned with the economic and social history of the merchant
marines, shipbuilding, fishing, ports, trade and maritime societies. The
Journal
is published semi-annually, in June and
December.
Heritage sites
European Maritime Heritage
The European Maritime Heritage is an umbrella organisation of European
traditional vessels in operation, includes a lot of information on former
fishing vessels now operated as traditional watercraft or floating museums
The Bosuns
Watch
UK trawler heritage site, focussing on the Fleetwood-trawlers. Contains
lists of trawlers and skippers as well as descriptions of the gear and the
industry.
Milford Trawlers
UK trawler heritage site, dedicated to the men who sailed on trawlers out
of Milford, and especially to those who lost their lives at sea. Contains
a list of trawlers and a chronology of Milford as a fishing port.
Artic Corsair
UK trawler heritage site, focussed on the Hull
heritage trawlers Jacinta and the Arctic Corsair.
Hull
Trawler
UK trawler heritage site, dedicated to the Hull trawlers and the men who
sailed them. Contains information on war trawlers, crews, lost trawler men
of the Port of Hull and much more.
Brixham Heritage
Sailing Trawlers Archive
UK trawler heritage site, containing an archive of Brixham Sailing
Trawlers. A key component of the archive is the Lanfear Brixham Sailing
Trawler database, which contains the records of all the boats built in
Brixham and enables searches by boat name or number, owner, skipper and,
indeed, any other key word in the database.
Other
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations
The website of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations, which contains a rich number of fisheries statistics, as
well as reports on the fisheries sector
Onefish
A fishery projects portal and participatory resource gateway for the
fisheries and aquatic research and development sector.
International Maritime Economic
History Association
The IMEHA is an international society which publishes the
International Journal of Maritime History
(IJMH) and Research in
Maritime History (RIMH).
The society sponsors conferences and provides assistance for the study of
maritime history.
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