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Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts

bibliographic database for marine science topics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ301794 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts is an abstracting and indexing service covering aquatic science and its subfields. It is maintained by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. It replaced the previous Current Bibliography for Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries (FAO) and Aquatic Biology Abstracts.

Further reading

Allen Varley et al. (Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission) (1995) ASFA: The First Twenty Years. An Outline History of Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, 1971–1990, UNESCO, IOC/INF-994.

Editorial summary

“Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts” enters the record as bibliographic database for marine science topics. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aquatic, Sciences and Fisheries can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 1971, 1990—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Aquatic, Sciences and Fisheries.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Aquatic, Sciences and Fisheries provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q301794. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1995, 1971 and 1990.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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  • Subject orientation
  • Search vocabulary
  • Locating named sources
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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts primary sources, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts archive and Aquatic research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.