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NOAA'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, which is part of the Office of Science and Technology at NMFS headquarters.

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 three series of the NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS and other special publications.

To learn more about these publications, please click on the links in the menu at left. We also invite you to join our mailing list to receive notice by email when new publications have been posted on this website. Type your email address in the box at the upper right and click on "Submit". You will receive an email to confirm your address.

We have been creating a digital archive of all publications produced in our core publication series, as well as some discontinued series and special publications. Visit our Legacy Series page for links to these electronic files.