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Topics Covered
Major areas of coverage include

  • biological and ecological aspects of marine, freshwater, and brackish environments
  • fisheries and aquaculture
  • living and non-living resources
  • aquatic pollution
  • oceanography
  • marine meterorology and climatology
  • marine technology and engineering
  • related legal, economic, and sociological sciences and living resources

Publication Dates Included

  • 1971 to present

Types of Publications Indexed

  • journals
  • reports
  • conference proceedings
  • dissertations and theses
  • mongraphs
  • grey literature

Coverage is international but most records include English abstracts

Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts is licensed for UH Manoa students, faculty, and staff only.

Links to ASFA are also available through:

  • the UH Manoa Library home page by selecting Online Databases / Indexes under Research Tools
  • the Science & Technology Department home page under the Databases tab
  • Detailed information on ASFA and the ProQuest platform are available from the ProQuest LibGuide.