Seafood Network Information Center
http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/
This excellent site contains links to laws related to seafood, consumer seafood information, marketing/product development, issues relating to sanitation, etc.

National Marine Fisheries Service
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/

Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia
FDA: Seafood Products Research Center
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~frf/rfe0.html
"The Regulatory Fish Encyclopedia (RFE) is a compilation of data in several formats that assists with the accurate identification of fish species. It was developed by FDA's RFE Team to help federal, state, and local officials and purchasers of seafood identify species substitution and economic deception in the marketplace."

Economics of Seafood Processing & Safety
Mississippi State University
http://msstate.edu/dept/crec/esps.html

Aquaculture Network Information Center
http://aquanic.org/map/begin.htm
Scroll down to see information on individual species and on systems used to raise these organisms.  There are many other related links on this page to publications and discussion groups involved with aquaculture.

Aquatic Network
http://www.aquanet.com/
This site includes news items on toxins in aquatic habitats as well as market information.

Information Resources on Fish Welfare
http://www.nal.usda.gov/awic/pubs/Fishwelfare/fishwelfare.htm
"The impact of human activities on fish welfare are not just in biomedical and other laboratory research, but also in aquaculture, fisheries, angling, and public display." The authors leave it up to the readers to figure out how fish welfare might be important.

Massachusetts Aquaculture White Paper - Fish Farms & Other Types of Aquaculture
http://www.mass.gov/czm/WPFISHOS.HTM

Seafood Safety:  Economics of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) programmes
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
http://nsgd.gso.uri.edu/haccp/flsgph98002.htm

Emerging Infectious Diseases
Public, Animal, and Environmental Health Implications of Aquaculture
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no4/garrett.htm

Live seafood trade linked to species invasions
John Chapman (Society for Conservation Biology)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/sfcb-ls092303.php

Research Priorities for Aquatic Invasive Species
Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and Standards Committee on Science U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/science/hearings/ets02/jun20/charter.htm

Managing Seafood Safety After an Oil Spill
http://www.response.restoration.noaa.gov/oilaids/pdfs/seafood2.pdf

Effects of Marine Oil Spills
http://www.itopf.com/effects.html
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