The Fisheries Centre 2006-2007 Report, and the previous 2004-2005, 2001-2003 and 1993-2000 Reports, are available for download.
FC Publication Lists from 1993 - 2007: Journal Articles, Books and Reports, Chapters in Books and Reports, and Miscellaneous.
The Fisheries Centre publishes the Fisheries Centre Research Reports series, consisting of papers from international workshops and research projects at the Centre. Fisheries Centre Research Reports (ISSN 11989-6727) are abstracted in Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts, ensuring that researchers around the world can become aware of this material.
In addition to the Fisheries Centre Research Reports, a new Working Paper Series has now been introduced to serve as a 'placeholder' for papers that are destined for publication in the primary literature. Such a series will help to make Fisheries Centre work available to our colleagues in a timely fashion, and well before the works appear in the primary literature. It will also help us to get timely comments from colleagues. Other advantages of having a Working Paper Series are: (i) the series can be indexed, e.g., in ASFA, EconLit, and other databases, making them much more accessible. This is done commonly with economics working papers; and (ii) the ability to cite a working paper, which most journals would not allow you to do with an unpublished manuscript.
Fisheries Centre personnel are involved in running a major international review journal, Fish and Fisheries, published by Blackwell Science, and, in addition, Blackwell's Fish and Aquatic Resources Book Series.
The Fisheries Centre's publication output in the primary peer-reviewed litrerature is high. Over the period 1993-2002, for example, the average number of peer reviewed publications per faculty was about 5 per year, and the total output more than 8 published items per year. Many publications are in leading journals, and, reflecting the training mandate of the Fisheries Centre, a significant proportion of students are senior authors, co-authors, or occasionally, sole authors. The average citation rate of Fisheries Centre publications is over 100 per paper per year. The publications from the Fisheries Centre from 1993 to 2002 in a PDF file will be available soon.
The Fisheries Centre is often in the news.
FishBytes, the Centre's bimonthly newsletter, has been produced and distributed internationally since 1995. It contains news of research and personnel at the Centre as well as other items of broad fisheries interest. The North Pacific Universities Marine Mammal Research Consortium (NPUMMRC), administered by the Centre, produces its own newsletter, Marine Mammal Research, distributed by e-mail, and an annual report. To subscribe electronically to FishBytes, please send an email.
Creation of computer programs, particularly for simulation modelling, is a core element of the Centre's output. Advances in the Ecopath with Ecosimn suite, emanating mainly from the fertile mind of Carl Walters, have become regular features. The Ecopath home page, from which Ecopath with Ecosim can be freely downloaded, includes examples and files that allow published examples to be replicated. Another software development project at the Centre is the conversion from DOS to the Windows environment of the widely used FiSAT and stock assessment software initiated by FAO and ICLARM, a task being undertaken by programmer Felimon 'Nonong' Gayanilo.
Other software produced by the Centre has included a model for Lake Kariba, a modelling system for small freshwater lake fisheries, and 'effmod' - a spatial multispecies fishery assessment system, all three programmed by Carl Walters. Steve Mackinson developed Clupex, expert system software available on CD-ROM which predicts the structure, dynamics and distribution of shoals of herring. Peter Rand and James Scandol developed Nerkasim, a spatial modelling package for investigating the ocean migration of Pacific salmonids.
A Steller sea lion database management system is being developed by the NPUMMRC to access information about hard and soft anatomy samples housed at the US National Marine Mammal Laboratory , which is available on the NMML website. There is also a CD-ROM of Prince William Sound, Alaska, produced by Tom Okey, that includes models of five aquatic ecosystems, a database of Alaska's fishes, a dictionary