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IntroductionNOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, founded in 1871 as the U.S. Commission on Fish and Fisheries, is the Nation's oldest Federal conservation agency. As such, it has been publishing the results of its research for more than 125 years, and the tradition of scientific publishing is continued today by the NMFS Scientific Publications Office (SPO) in Seattle, Washington.Formal
NMFS publications include the quarterly journals, Fishery Bulletin
and Marine Fisheries Review, and the
NOAA Professional Paper series (formerly NOAA Technical
Report series). In addition, the SPO provides technical and administrative
editorial support to NMFS headquarters offices, which includes coordinating
publication of several series of the NOAA Technical Memoranda NMFS,
including Our Living Oceans, and other special publications.
Publication SeriesFishery BulletinThe quarterly Fishery Bulletin (FB) is the oldest and one of the finest fisheries journals in the world. It has been an official publication of the U.S. Government since 1881, under various titles, and is the U.S. counterpart to other highly regarded governmental fisheries science publications. It publishes original research or interpretative articles in all scientific fields that bear on marine fisheries and marine mammal science.Manuscripts submitted for publication in the Fishery Bulletin and Professional Papers undergo peer review by senior scientists within and outside the government. The NMFS Scientific Editor, a scientist affiliated with one of the NMFS Science Centers who serves for a three-year period, is responsible for conducting the peer reviews and for accepting or rejecting manuscripts. For more information on the Fishery Bulletin, including complete text for recent issues (in PDF format), please visit the Fishery Bulletin home page. NOAA Professional Paper NMFSThe NOAA Professional Paper NMFS (PP) series (which began in 2003 and replaces the NOAA Technical Report NMFS series) provides a flexible outlet for publishing a variety of high quality manuscripts which, owing to length or other reasons, are inappropriate for the Fishery Bulletin, such as keys, comprehensive lengthy manuscripts, FAO species synopses, Flora and Fauna subseries manuscripts, etc. The manuscripts published are equal in quality to Fishery Bulletin articles and have undergone the same rigorous peer-review process.The PP series is not used for annotated bibliographies, lengthy data sets, or computer programs. Such materials may be more appropriately published in the Technical Memorandum series or perhaps in microfiche or electronic form. For more information on NOAA Professional Paper NMFS, and the previous series (NOAA Technical Report NMFS), please select from the following:
(includes full text of selected reports, downloadable as PDF files) Marine Fisheries ReviewThe quarterly journal, Marine Fisheries Review (MFR), has been an official publication of the U.S. government since 1939. It publishes review articles, research reports, significant progress reports, technical notes, and news articles on fisheries science, engineering and economics, commercial and recreational fisheries, marine mammal studies, aquaculture, and U.S. and foreign fisheries developments. Emphasis, however, is on indepth review articles and practical or applied aspects of marine fisheries rather than pure research.For more information on the Marine Fisheries Review, including complete text for recent issues (in PDF format), please select from the following: NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFSThe NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS series (TM) is published by NMFS Offices and Science Centers, and is used for timely documentation and communication of preliminary results, interim reports, or more localized or special purpose information that may not have received formal outside peer reviews or detailed editing. NMFS Offices and Science Centers are responsible for reviews and technical accuracy of TMs. The TMs are numbered publications and can be obtained from the issuing Office or Science Center or the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). The Publication & Reference Links page includes links to many of the listings of TMs issued by the NMFS Science Centers. The NMFS Office of Science and Technology also has a searchable database of TMs here. TMs in the NMFS SPO series processed for headquarters offices are generally available from the specific division that produced the report. Some are available on the SPO site here.Special PublicationsThe Raymond J. H. Beverton Lectures at Woods Hole, Massachusetts Purchasing PublicationsSubscriptions from the Superintendent of DocumentsSubscriptions for the Fishery Bulletin and Marine Fisheries Review are sold by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. For new subscriptions write directly to: New Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954. Subscription costs are:
Click for a printable Fishery Bulletin subscription form. Purchase through NTISProfessional Papers, Technical Reports, Technical Memoranda, and issues of the Fishery Bulletin and the Marine Fisheries Review are available for purchase in paper copy and microfiche form from the National Technical Information Service, 5285 Port Royal Road, Springfield, VA 22161 (1-800-553-NTIS). Prices vary, depending on size of articles or publications. The NTIS Web site is at http://www.ntis.gov.Contacting the Scientific Publications OfficeMailing address:
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