Partnership

The second group of partners contributes to the ASFA database within their geographic or subject area. This group includes institutions whose remit is international:

• Scientific Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea (ADRIAMED)
• International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)
• Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
• Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
• Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center/Secretariat (SEAFDEC)
• WorldFish Center

Also in the second group are partners whose remit is national, consisting of state actors, academia and research institutions, and civil society organizations, including Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs):

• National Centre for Research and Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture (CNDPR), Algeria
• Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP), Argentina
• Universidad Nacional del Comahue (UNComa), Argentina
• Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh
• Institut de Recherches Halieutiques et Océanologiques du Bénin (IRHOB), Benin
• 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
• Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras José Benito Vives de Andréis (INVEMAR), Colombia
• Centre de Recherches Océanologiques (CRO), Côte d'Ivoire
• Instituto Nacional de Pesca (INP), Ecuador
• Egyptian National Oceanographic Data Center / National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (NIOF), Egypt
• Institute for Scientific and Technical Information of the Georgian Technical University (TECHINFORMI), Georgia
• Centre National des Sciences Halieutiques de Boussoura (CNSHB), Guinea
• Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute (IFSRI), Iran
• Marine Institute, Ireland
• Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA), Japan
• Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI), Kenya
• 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
• National Institute for Freshwater Fisheries Research (NIFFR), Nigeria
• Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR), Nigeria
• Instituto del Mar del Perú (IMARPE), Peru
• Northern Iloilo State University (NISU), Philippines
• College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences - University of the Philippines Visayas, Philippines
• National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (NMFRI), Poland
• Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Portugal
• Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO), Russian Federation
• Direction des Industries de Transformation de la Pêche, Senegal
• Direction des Pêches Maritimes, Senegal
• South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), South Africa
• New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), South Africa
• Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM), Tunisia
• Central Fisheries Research Institute – Trabzon, Türkiye
• National Fisheries Resources Research Institute (NaFiRRI), Uganda
• Freshwater Biological Association (FBA), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), United States of America
• Universidad de la República - Facultad de Veterinaria (UdelaR), Uruguay
• Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Centre of Digital and Statistic Agriculture. Centre of Information and Statistics (DTS/ CIS), Viet Nam
• Viet Nam Institute of Oceanography (VNIO), Viet Nam
• Institute of Marine Sciences, United Republic of Tanzania, Zanzibar

An ASFA partner can engage another institution to support their ASFA activities. These supporting institutions are known as Collaborating Centres. Although Collaborating Centres have no formal agreement with ASFA, they receive the same complimentary access to the ASFA database as partners. Furthermore, Collaborating Centres are welcome to attend ASFA meetings and share their views, although they are not represented on the Steering Committee and therefore cannot vote or take part in the decision-making process.

Collaborating Centres are listed below under their coordinating partner:

Scientific Cooperation to Support Responsible Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea (ADRIAMED)

• Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries, Split, Croatia
• Institute of Marine Biology (Kotor), University of Montenegro

Universidade de São Paulo Instituto Oceanografico (IO/USP), Brazil

• Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS

Centre National des Sciences Halieutiques de Boussoura (CNSHB), Guinea

• Centre de Recherche Marine et Côtière de Guinée - CERMAC-G
• Institut de Recherche Environnementale de Guinée – IREG

Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency (FRA), Japan

• National Fisheries University – NFU
• Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology – TUMST

Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Malaysia

• Universiti Malaya
• Universiti Malaysia Sabah

National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (NMFRI), Poland

• Pomeranian University in Słupsk
• Institute of Oceanology PAS, Sopot

Ministry of Fisheries of Viet Nam, Centre of Information and Statistics, Viet Nam

• Nha Trang University

OpenASFA records are freely searchable on fao.org and are exported to the ASFA Publishing partner, ProQuest, for inclusion in the full ASFA database, which currently contains over four million records. ASFA Partners and Collaborating Centres receive complimentary access to the ProQuest database, which is also commercially available to the public.

All ASFA Partners are represented on the ASFA Steering Committee, which meets regularly to review progress and determine the future direction of ASFA.