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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.