NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CLUB AND SOCIETY INFORMATION
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Fish Link Central
Listing of clubs and societies in the United States and other countries.
Aquarium Clubs
Listing of clubs and societies in the United States and other countries.
FAQ: Aquarium Organizations and Societies
A smallish list of various clubs and societies. Address available to send your submissions.
American Cichlid Association
[USA] The ACA provides information on cichlid care and culture.
American Fisheries Society (AFS)
[USA] The American Fisheries Society (AFS), founded in 1870, is the oldest and largest professional society representing fisheries scientists. AFS promotes scientific research and enlightened management of resources for optimum use and enjoyment by the public. It also encourages a comprehensive education for fisheries scientists and continuing on-the-job training.
The American Elasmobranch Society
The American Elasmobranch Society is a non-profit organization that seeks to advance the scientific study of living and fossil sharks, skates, rays, and chimaeras, and the promotion of education, conservation, and wise utilization of natural resources. The Society holds annual meetings and presents research reports of interest to students of elasmobranch biology. Those meetings are held in conjunction with annual meetings of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists each year at rotating North American venues.
American Killifish Association
[USA] Site for those colorful freshwater fish you do not see in the stores. Join the AKA and learn about killifish.
American Livebearer Association
[USA] For those of you who are interested in fish who give live birth to their young--many more than you would expect. Not just for beginners.
American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
[USA] Not only for professionals but for those with a serious interest in fish or reptiles. Worth joining just for the publication Copeia.
American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA)
[USA] Founded in 1924, the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, now known as the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. AZA's vision is to work cooperatively to save and protect the wonders of the living natural world.
Anabantoid Association of Great Britain
[UK] National group for labyrinth and related fish in Great Britain.
The Angelfish Society
[US] We are a collection of Angelfish enthusiasts, hobbyists and breeders who are interested in the advancement of our hobby, through improvements in the quality of the fish we keep and breed, by employing the standards which this society will develop. (This looks to be an Internet group with membership from all of North America at the present time. -scs)
Animal Behavior Society Web Site
The Animal Behavior Society is a non-profit scientific society, founded to encourage and promote the study of animal behavior. ABS members are from all over the world, but primarily from North, Central, and South America. Membership is open to those interested in the study of animal behavior.
ANGFA Home Page
[AUSTRALIA] Promoting the conservation, study, keeping, and propagation of the native fish species of Australia and New Guinea.
Apistogramma Study Group
[USA] For those of you interested in Apistogrammas.
Aquacultural Engineering Society
[USA] The aim of the Aquacultural Engineering Society (AES) is to provide a means by which its members can come together to discuss engineering problems related to aquaculture. AES works closely with other professional societies which also address aquaculture needs and issues in a more general sense. AES serves as a united voice for aquacultural engineering in the general aquacultural community and provides an engineering perspective to the problems and proposed solutions to these problems. AES serves as an authoritative source of information on aquacultural engineering and provides engineering support to initiatives from or for the aquaculture industry. AES gives its members:
Aquatic Gardeners AssociationA
[USA] The Aquatic Gardeners Association. For those of you who want information about live plants.
Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration Foundation
[USA] Conducts and supports applied research in the management of aquatic pest species focusing on nuisance vegetation.
Association Française des Cichlidophiles
[FRANCE] Presented in French only. For translation help go to Babel Fish and enter this site's URL (the http: stuff).
Association of Aquarists
[UK] Membership open to individuals and organizations. May be based in Portsmouth.
dell'Associazione Italiana Ciclidofili
Italian Cichlid Association. Mostly in Italian, but some English pages. For translation help go to Babel Fish and enter this site's URL (the http: stuff).
Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria (ARAZPA)
[AUSTRALIA] Welcome to the Australasian Regional Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria web site. ARAZPA is the collective professional association of the zoos and aquariums of Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea. The Association aims to promote and maintain professional standards of operation in the zoological industry and to maximise its collective resources for the conservation of biodiversity. Sydney, Australia.
Breeder's Registry
[USA] For those breeding and raising marine fish and invertebrates. International organization based in Sacramento, CA.
British Cichlid Association
[UK] The British Cichlid Association, formed in 1971 is a nonprofit making organisation whose aims are to promote the conservation and aquarium study of this fascinating and extremely diverse group of fishes, thereby, providing accurate and detailed information, for future use. Contact with one another through B.C.A publications and face to face at regular conventions and auctions develops the social and scientific sides of cichlid keeping and encourages the preservation of rare and endangered species through captive breeding programmes.
British Killifish Association
[UK] British keep killies also. International memberships available, payable in pounds sterling.
The British Koi-Keepers' Society
[UK] The British national koi society, currently has 43 sections in the United Kingdom.
British Marine Life Study Society
[UK] I am pleased to introduce the British Marine Life Study Society. We are responsible for producing the journal GLAUCUS, which is the first publication exploring the marine life of the seas surrounding the British Isles available to the general public. We also publish the quarterly SHOREWATCH Newsletter and the TORPEDO Electronic News Bulletin.
British Rainbowfish and Goby Society
[UK] The British Rainbowfish And Goby Society was founded in November 1991 by 12 fish keepers in a small room at Weston Super Mare. The British Rainbowfish And Goby Society was set up to promote the keeping and breeding of these fish within the aquatic hobby.
Canadian Association of Aquarium Clubs (CAOAC)
[CANADA] Canadian organization of aquarium clubs in Canada. Helps to keep clubs in touch with one another.
Canadian Killifish Association
[CANADA] Keeping killies in Canada? You are not the only one.
[link opens in new window] Canadian Rift Lake Cichlid Association
[CANADA] Canadian Rift Lake Cichlid Associates Inc. is a membership-driven buying group dedicated to education, husbandry, conservation and sales promotion of the fish of the African Rift Lake valley.
Communauté Internationale pour les Labyrinthidés
The C.I.L. is involved with the Labyrinth fish keeping. Meetings take place every year. You'll be able to find some species kept and bred by C.I.L. members. Site is mostly in French. For translation help go to Babel Fish and enter this site's URL (the http: stuff).
The Coral Reef Alliance
[USA] The Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) is a non-profit, member-supported organization that promotes coral reef conservation around the world by funding protection efforts, raising public awareness, and building international support.
Federation of American Aquarium Societies
[USA] F.A.A.S. is a group of North American aquarium groups to help with administration of the groups and pas along news of an aquatic nature, such as legislative updates. Open to groups and individuals in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Federation of British Aquatic Societies
[UK] Founded in 1938, the Federation of British Aquatic Societies (FBAS) is the largest fishkeeping-orientated organisation in the UK. The FBAS Council are responsible for the administration, planning, instigation and operation of the many services and the support that we offer to societies.
Grupo Mexicano de Ciclidófilos
[MEXICO] English text is available.
Hawai'i Coral Reef Network
[USA] The Hawai'i Coral Reef Network is a grass-roots organization of numerous individuals from a variety of state and non-governmental agencies concerned with the conservation of our precious coral reef resources. This web site is an outgrowth of the Network and an attempt to communicate our activities to as many people as possible and additionally facilitate communication among ourselves.
International Anabantoid Association
Welcome to our website.ÝWe hope you find it fun, interesting, informative, and, most of all, educational.ÝBy way of introduction, let us start by saying thatÝthe IAA is a Species Maintenance organization and not a typical hobby club, so it's rules and regulations are quite different from most other organizations.Ý
International Anabantoid Society (US Branch)
[USA] The the IAA is a Species maintenance organization - members are helping keep a species alive through the aquarium hobby, while natural habitats are being destroyed, in danger of being destroyed or degraded. Members will have access to information on the care and maintenance of some of the rarer anabantoid species from the IGL available through the IAA. (Please note that not all anabantoid species are available - some are, some aren't - as fish are bred and become available through the IGL, we make every effort to make them available to IAA members).
International Betta Congress
[USA] The IBC provides information on the genus Betta.
International Fancy Guppy Association
[USA] IFGA Online, proving that guppies can be much more than feeder fish.
KilliFish Nederland
KilliFish Nederland is een vereniging, opgericht in 1972, die zich ten doel stelt de waardering voor de natuur en in het bijzonder de eierleggende tandkarpers op te wekken. Zij tracht dit doel te bereiken door het houden van vergaderingen en lezingen en door het tijdschrift "KILLI NIEUWS". Or, in English from the English page, Killi Fish Nederland (or KFN) : is a Dutch association for breeders and keepers of the Oviparous Cyprinodontid Fishes, better known as "Killies," etc.
KILLI.NET - The International Killifish Association
The international killie organization.
International Seaweed Association
The International Seaweed Association (ISA) welcomes you to its web site. The ISA is an international organisation dedicated to the encouragement of research and development of seaweed and seaweed products.
Japan International Food and Aquaculture Society
This Society is a nonprofit private organization founded in 1994. As one of its focused activities, it has been engaged in the introduction of overseas scientific-data-based advanced technologies relevant to "Land-based Closed Recirculating Aquaculture Systems" as well as in the dissemination of those technologies among one hundred domestic and overseas members of the Society.
The Malacological Society of Australasia
[AUSTRALIA] The prime objective of The Malacological Society of Australasia (MSA) is to promote the study of molluscs. Our members include amateurs, students and scientists interested in the study, conservation or appreciation of molluscs.
The MSA is working towards becoming the umbrella group in Australasia (Australia, New Zealand and nearby countries in Asia and the Pacific) representing malacological interests. It is concerned with, and responds to, national and regional issues concerning conservation and funding for molluscan research, import/export controls etc. It has an international membership and is affiliated with other malacological groups including the American Malacological Union and the international organisation, Unitas Malacologica.
Marine Aquarium Council
[USA] The Marine Aquarium Council (MAC) is an international, not-for-profit organization that brings marine aquarium animal collectors, exporters, importers and retailers together with aquarium keepers, public aquariums, conservation organizations and government agencies.
MAC's mission is to conserve coral reefs and other marine ecosystems by creating standards and certification for those engaged in the collection and care of ornamental marine life from reef to aquarium.
Marine Aquarium Societies of North America Inc., MASNA
[USA] Marine Aquarium Societies of North America Inc., MASNA, is a non-profit organization presently comprised of approximately 23 aquarium societies and several individual hobbyists across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. We are supporting the development of hobby endorsed standards for husbandry and importation of marine organisms, as well as standards for their handling, shipping and holding. We believe in a pro-active stance rather than a reactive one, which is why we are supporting the formation of the above mentioned standards. If we do not do this ourselves it WILL be done for us by state and/or federal agencies and we can do a better job.
Native Fish Australia
[AUSTRALIA] Open to anyone who cares about the well being of Australia's native freshwater fish and habitats.
Native Fish Conservancy
[USA] The NFC is a 501 C 3 federal nonprofit organization dedicated to the study, conservation and preservation of native fishes. We are currently working only in North America.
Nordiska Ciklids ä llskapet
[SWEDEN] My best guess says this is Swedish. If you have information otherwise, please let me know.
North American Benthological Society (NABS)
The North American Benthological Society (NABS) is an international scientific organization whose purpose is to promote better understanding of the biotic communities of lake and stream bottoms and their role in aquatic ecosystems, by providing media and disseminating new investigation results, new interpretations, and other benthological information to aquatic biologists and to the scientific community at large. The Society was founded as the Midwest Benthological Society by 13 charter members at Havana, Illinois, in the spring of 1953.
North American Native Fishes Association
NANFA is dedicated to the enjoyment, study and conservation of the continent's native fishes.
Ocean Voice International
[USA] International marine environmental organization on the WWW.
Rainbowfish Study Group of North America
If you like rainbowfish, check out this group.
Reef Relief
REEF RELIEF is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to preserving and protecting living coral reef ecosystems through loacal, regional and global efforts. Key West, FL
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is a non-profit non-governmental organization (NGO) involved with the investigation and documentation of violations of international laws, regulations and treaties protecting marine wildlife species. The Society is also involved with the enforcement of international laws, regulations and treaties when there is no enforcement by national governments or international regulatory organizations due to absence of jurisdiction or lack of political will. Venice, California; London, UK; The Hague, Netherlands; Vancouver, B.C., Canada; Clifton Hill, VIC, Australia; Ankarsrum, Sweden.
Societe Française d'Ichtyologie
[FRANCE] French Icthyological Society, mainly in French, there is some English on these pages. For translation help go to Babel Fish and enter this site's URL (the http: stuff).
South American Cichlid Study Group
[USA] Interested in South American cichlids? This may be your group. Accepts international memberships.
World Aquaculture Society
[USA] (OK, OK, so they "stole" the URL we wanted. Bearing no real hard feelings, here is the info:) The World Aquaculture Society (WAS) is an international non-profit society with over 4,000 members in 94 countries. Founded in 1970, the primary focus of WAS is to improve communication and information exchange within the diverse global aquaculture community.
The World Aquaculture Society, through its commitment to excellence in science, technology, education, and information exchange, will contribute to the progressive and sustainable development of aquaculture throughout the world.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre
[UK] Conservation of all things including fish.
[link opens in new window] Zen Nippon Airinkai
[JAPAN] The Koi keepers, who love Nishikigoi, have got together to found the Nishikigoi keepers society - which is ZEN NIPPON AIRINKAI. Through NIPPON AIRINKAI the members can make the Koi Friendship and giving the Koi information to each other all over the world.
ZEN NIPPON AIRINKAI offers various activities and events to inform how enjoyable Nishikigoi keeping is, and also how to appreciate the largest garden fish in the world. ZEN NIPPON AIRINKAI is an association for amateur Koi keepers, which contribute the social welfare by donating Nishikigoi to the public ponds in the rivers, parks, schools and other public spaces.
Site available in Japanese or English.
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