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ASFA Magazine, Issue #7 – May 2022

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    This issue of ASFA Magazine celebrates the launch of OpenASFA and highlights other information sources and partnerships, including the FIRMS Partnership and AquaDocs repository. OpenASFA is the new system for creating, recording and exporting ASFA records that will help revolutionise how ASFA contributes to the dissemination of fisheries and aquaculture research. This issue also updates on the work to improve the ASFA Subject Thesaurus. Since joining AGROVOC as a sub-vocabulary, ASFA is pleased to see non-English language coverage of the ASFA thesaurus increase thanks to the efforts of its multilingual partners. Lastly, ASFA launches a survey to understand the career outcomes and any real or perceived barriers experienced by information professionals working in aquatic sciences, fisheries and aquaculture. The survey is designed to show whether gender has any impact on career outcomes and barriers. ASFA Secretariat will share the results of the survey in the next issue.
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    This issue of the Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) magazine has a regional focus on Africa and features contributions from ASFA Partners in Benin, Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria, Tunisia and Uganda. For almost fifty years, the ASFA Partnership has worked to promote and disseminate aquatic science, fisheries and aquaculture research and this issue highlights the work of institutions in Africa to achieve this goal. A broad range of information management activities and projects being undertaken by ASFA Partner institutions is presented - from discussing the impact and use of the ASFA database in Benin, Guinea and Nigeria, to programmes such as the SureFISH consortium, to assist fish traceability and authenticity, and the Ocean InfoHub, a new initiative to streamline access to ocean science data and information for management and sustainable development. The impact of COVID-19 is felt across the world, and its impact on continuing aquatic science research in Africa during this time is concisely presented.
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    In this issue, we celebrate ASFA’s upcoming 50th Anniversary. ASFA was first published as a monthly printed journal of fisheries and aquaculture abstracts in 1971 and in this issue, we look back over ASFA’s past, as well as looking at some of the plans in store for ASFA’s future, namely OpenASFA, one of the most exciting developments in ASFA’s lifetime. We also hear from ASFA Partner Coffi Ferdinando Rock GBEDO on how his institution (Benin Institute for Fishery and Oceanologic Research) has been affected by COVID-19. The ASFA Impact and Strategies Group reports on a survey they undertook to assess the impact of the pandemic on aquatic science libraries worldwide, finding that although libraries have had to deal with staff and budget cuts, many have found innovative ways to help their communities during this time of crisis. Lastly, we hear from long standing ASFA Partner Ian Pettman (Freshwater Biological Association, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) who reflects on the changes to fisheries his home town of Hull has seen over the past 50 years, and also provides an interim project report on his institution’s work to cover more Grey Literature for ASFA.

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