Our institute has been selected as Turkey representative of ASFA (aquatic sciences and Fisheries abstracts), which serves as an indexing service covering the world literature on the Science, Technology, Management and conservation of marine, salty and freshwater resources and environments, including socio-economic and legal aspects. Our institute, which is one of the 48 national partners within ASFA, will be responsible for indexing the biblioyographic data of 3 journals (Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Genetics of Aquatic Organisms and Aquaculture Studies) published by our institution in the first phase.