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Open Access Fishery Journals
A list of Open Access Fishery journals for you to publish your manuscript in
Fishery is the enterprise of raising or harvesting fish or other aquatic organisms
Open Access journals publish research articles that are free to to view and download. The main difference between articles in open access journals and those in closed journals is the business model. Both types of articles have to undergo the same peer review process.
We hope this list of Fishery OA journals will be helpful for you in deciding where to publish your Fishery manuscript.
Our list includes all the high-impact factor Fishery journals as well as new journals. This should give you a better idea on where you should publish. Rather than just the top hits Fishery journals, we have made an exhaustive list of open accesss Fishery journals. Use our different columns — number of papers, number of citations, and relevance — to find the best Fishery venue for your manuscript.
The DOAJ columns refers to the The Directory of Open Access Journals, a list of open access journals, maintained by Infrastructure Services for Open Access.
There are certain criteria a journal must meet to be indexed by DOAJ, and thus inclusion in the DOAJ index is seen by scholars as a mark of quality.
All the open access Fishery journals in this list are indexed in OA.mg.
If you spot any mistakes in this table of Fishery OA journals, don’t hesitate to send us an email.
| Name | ISSN | DOAJ | Publisher | No. of Papers | Citations | Relevance▼ | Website |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fishery Bulletin | 0090-0656 | ☑ | NMFS Scientific Publications Office | 1002 | 18594 | 96.7 | Website |
| Bulletin - North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission | 1028-9127 | North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission | 77 | 123 | 89.6 | ||
| Journal of Northwest Atlantic Fishery Science | 0250-6408 | Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization | 520 | 13558 | 88.8 | ||
| Marine Biodiversity Records | 1755-2672 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 1264 | 7375 | 88.7 | Website |
| Nauplius | 0104-6497 | ☑ | SciELO | 367 | 1345 | 86.4 | Website |
| Aquaculture Environment Interactions | 1869-215X | ☑ | 445 | 6764 | 85.2 | Website | |
| Asian fisheries science | 0116-6514 | ☑ | Asian Fisheries Society | 1233 | 6033 | 83 | Website |
| Philippine Journal of Fisheries | 0048-377X | National Fisheries Research and Development Institute | 46 | 57 | 82.6 | ||
| Latin American Journal of Aquatic Mammals | 1676-7497 | Sociedad Latinoamericana de Especialistas en Mamiferos Acuaticos | 280 | 2515 | 81.8 | ||
| Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science | 0856-860X | African Journals Online | 86 | 17 | 81.4 | ||
| Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science | 1942-5120 | ☑ | Wiley | 571 | 6591 | 81.3 | Website |
| Journal of Aquaculture & Marine Biology | 2378-3184 | MedCrave Group | 387 | 367 | 80.9 | ||
| Acta Ichthyologica Et Piscatoria | 0137-1592 | ☑ | Szczecinskie Towarzystwo Naukowe | 1517 | 6498 | 80.4 | Website |
| The journal of cetacean research and management | 1561-073X | ☑ | 116 | 1244 | 80.2 | ||
| Nammco Scientific Publications | 1560-2206 | ☑ | UiT The Arctic University of Norway | 199 | 2319 | 79.9 | Website |
| Freshwater mollusk biology and conservation | 2472-2944 | BioOne (Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation) | 79 | 343 | 78.5 | ||
| Journal of Marine Biology | 1687-9481 | ☑ | Hindawi Limited | 384 | 3235 | 78.4 | Website |
| Marine Fisheries : Journal of Marine Fisheries Technology and Management | 2087-4235 | ☑ | Institut Pertanian Bogor | 237 | 85 | 76.8 | Website |
| Endangered Species Research | 1613-4796 | ☑ | Inter-Research Science Center | 1252 | 26862 | 76.3 | Website |
| Fisheries & Aquatic Life | 2545-0255 | 84 | 62 | 76.2 | Website | ||
| Museum Victoria science reports | 1833-0290 | Museums Victoria | 21 | 283 | 76.2 | ||
| The Open Marine Biology Journal | 1874-4508 | Bentham Science | 67 | 552 | 76.1 | ||
| Aquatic Invasions | 1818-5487 | ☑ | Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy - REABIC | 1012 | 16473 | 75.2 | Website |
| Voprosy rybolovstva | 0234-2774 | Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography | 214 | 73 | 75.2 | ||
| Indian Journal of Fisheries | 0970-6011 | Central Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi | 3095 | 10431 | 75.1 | ||
| Sri Lanka Journal of Aquatic Sciences | 2424-7057 | Sri Lanka Journals Online | 175 | 399 | 74.9 | ||
| E-Journal Rekayasa dan Teknologi Budidaya Perairan: Aquacuture Engineering and Technology Journal | 2302-3600 | Universitas Lampung | 39 | 14 | 74.4 | ||
| Archives of Polish Fisheries | 1230-6428 | ☑ | De Gruyter Open Sp. z o.o. | 532 | 3226 | 73.5 | |
| Northeast gulf science | 0148-9836 | University of Southern Mississippi | 264 | 2247 | 73.5 | ||
| Indonesian Fisheries Research Journal | 0853-8980 | ☑ | Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research and Development | 348 | 180 | 72.1 | |
| The Open Fish Science Journal | 1874-401X | Bentham Science | 103 | 849 | 71.8 | ||
| Ribarstvo | 1330-061X | ☑ | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 46 | 40 | 71.7 | Website |
| Mediterranean Marine Science | 1108-393X | ☑ | National Documentation Centre (EKT) | 945 | 10792 | 71.6 | Website |
| Biological oceanography | 0196-5581 | Taylor & Francis | 108 | 3380 | 71.3 | Website | |
| Journal of Sea Research | 1385-1101 | ☑ | Elsevier | 2207 | 53434 | 70.8 | Website |
| Marine fisheries review | 0090-1830 | NMFS Scientific Publications Office | 99 | 406 | 70.7 | ||
| Aquatic Biology | 1864-7782 | ☑ | Inter-Research Science Center | 782 | 15183 | 70.5 | Website |
| Al-maǧallaẗ al-ʻirāqiyyaẗ li-l-istizrāʻ al-māʼhī | 1812-237X | Marwah Infotech | 136 | 75 | 69.9 | ||
| International journal of innovative studies in aquatic biology and fisheries | 2454-7670 | ARC Publications Pvt Ltd. | 86 | 26 | 69.8 | ||
| Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research | 0718-560X | ☑ | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso | 1479 | 6452 | 69.3 | Website |
| Journal of Fisheries International | 1817-3381 | Medwell Publications | 45 | 116 | 68.9 | ||
| Journal of survey in fisheries sciences | 2368-7487 | Greenwave Publishing of Canada | 153 | 126 | 68.6 | ||
| International Journal of Fisheries and Aquaculture | 2006-9839 | Academic Journals | 252 | 917 | 67.5 | ||
| Plankton and Benthos Research | 1880-8247 | The Plankton Society of Japan (The Japanese Association of Benthology) | 483 | 3193 | 67.3 | ||
| Advances in Oceanography | 2314-7733 | Hindawi Limited | 3 | 55 | 66.7 | ||
| Nafo Scientific Council Studies | 0250-6432 | Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization | 15 | 88 | 66.7 | ||
| Jurnal Ilmiah Platax (edisi elektronik) | 2302-3589 | Platax | 268 | 147 | 66.4 | ||
| Technical report | 1029-5917 | North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission | 344 | 14 | 65.7 | ||
| Marine Research in Indonesia | 2443-2008 | Indonesian Institute of Sciences | 315 | 839 | 65.4 | ||
| Galaxea, Journal of Coral Reef Studies | 1883-0838 | Japanese Coral Reef Society | 254 | 1280 | 65.4 | ||
| Bonorowo Wetlands | 2088-110X | UNS Solo | 63 | 30 | 65.1 | ||
| Gulf of Mexico science | 1087-688X | University of Southern Mississippi | 341 | 2057 | 64.5 | ||
| Israeli journal of aquaculture-Bamidgeh | 0792-156X | AquacultureHub | 180 | 28 | 64.4 | ||
| Management of Biological Invasions | 1989-8649 | ☑ | Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy - REABIC | 528 | 4356 | 64.2 | Website |
| BioInvasions Records | 2242-1300 | ☑ | Regional Euro-Asian Biological Invasions Centre Oy - REABIC | 771 | 3008 | 64.1 | Website |
| Fishmed | 2386-8228 | Sociedad Iberica de Ictiologia | 41 | 56 | 63.4 | ||
| Asian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Research | 2582-3760 | Sciencedomain International | 438 | 81 | 63 | ||
| Oceans | 2673-1924 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 93 | 117 | 62.4 | Website |
| Jurnal Iktiologi Indonesia | 1693-0339 | Masyarakat Iktiologi Indonesia | 143 | 70 | 62.2 | ||
| Scientia Marina | 0214-8358 | ☑ | Editorial CSIC | 2630 | 48445 | 62.2 | Website |
| Trudy VNIRO | 2307-3497 | Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography | 250 | 111 | 62 | ||
| Jurnal ilmu Kelautan Spermonde | 2460-0156 | ☑ | Hasanuddin University, Faculty of Law | 42 | 32 | 61.9 | Website |
| Ribogospodarsʹka Nauka Ukraïni | 2075-1508 | ☑ | National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Co. LTD Ukrinformnauka) | 378 | 113 | 61.9 | Website |
| Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory | 0037-2870 | Kyoto University Library | 1024 | 7536 | 61.4 | ||
| Atoll research bulletin | 0077-5630 | Smithsonian Institution | 782 | 9861 | 61.4 | ||
| Journal of Aquaculture Research and Development | 2155-9546 | OMICS Publishing Group | 1054 | 3050 | 61 | ||
| Toxicon: X | 2590-1710 | ☑ | Elsevier | 110 | 360 | 60.9 | Website |
| Indonesian Aquaculture Journal | 0215-0883 | Agency for Marine and Fisheries Research and Development | 293 | 210 | 60.8 | ||
| Vestnik Astrahanskogo gosudarstvennogo tehničeskogo universiteta | 2073-5529 | Astrakhan State Technical University | 354 | 124 | 60.7 | ||
| Frontiers in Marine Science | 2296-7745 | ☑ | Frontiers Media SA | 8270 | 55220 | 60.7 | Website |
| Wetlands Australia Journal | 0725-0312 | University of New South Wales | 246 | 833 | 60.6 | ||
| Marine and fishery sciences | 2683-7951 | ☑ | Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Desarrollo Pesquero (INIDEP) | 70 | 18 | 60 | Website |
| Tulane studies in zoology and botany | 0082-6782 | Smithsonian Institution Biodiversity Heritage Library | 30 | 374 | 60 | ||
| Ilmu Kelautan : Indonesian Journal of Marine Sciences | 2406-7598 | ☑ | Institute of Research and Community Services Diponegoro University (LPPM UNDIP) | 67 | 18 | 59.7 | Website |
| Fishes | 2410-3888 | ☑ | MDPI AG | 435 | 1286 | 59.3 | Website |
| Iranian journal of aquatic animal health | 2345-315X | Armenian Green Publishing Co. | 98 | 156 | 59.2 | ||
| Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management | 1944-687X | U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 671 | 3225 | 58.6 | ||
| International Journal of Aquaculture | 1927-5773 | Sophia Publishing Group, Inc. | 257 | 379 | 58.4 | ||
| Journal of Freshwater Ecology | 0270-5060 | ☑ | Taylor & Francis | 2469 | 22632 | 57.6 | Website |
| Journal of Toxins | 2314-5056 | Hindawi Limited | 7 | 17 | 57.1 | ||
| Depik: Jurnal Ilmu-ilmu Perairan, Pesisir dan Perikanan | 2089-7790 | ☑ | Institute of Postgraduate Studies, Syiah Kuala University | 263 | 173 | 57 | Website |
| Smithsonian contributions to the marine sciences | 0196-0768 | Smithsonian Institution | 58 | 1983 | 56.9 | ||
| Aquatic Science & Management : Jurnal Ilmu dan Manajemen Perairan (e-journal) | 2337-5000 | Platax | 132 | 43 | 56.8 | ||
| Nihon setoroji kenkyu | 1881-3445 | Japan Cetology Research Group | 62 | 18 | 56.5 | ||
| Boletim Do Instituto De Pesca | 0046-9939 | ☑ | Boletim do Instituto de Pesca | 1260 | 4143 | 56.5 | |
| Acta Adriatica: International Journal of Marine Sciences | 0001-5113 | Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries | 574 | 2695 | 56.1 | ||
| Investigaciones Marinas | 0716-1069 | 342 | 2506 | 55.6 | |||
| Chelonian research monographs | 1088-7105 | 101 | 481 | 55.4 | |||
| International journal of oceanography & aquaculture | 2577-4050 | Medwin Publishers | 101 | 24 | 55.4 | ||
| International journal of fisheries and aquatic studies | 2347-5129 | AkiNik Publications | 308 | 34 | 54.9 | ||
| Brazilian Journal of Oceanography | 1679-8759 | ☑ | SciELO | 1047 | 9861 | 54.3 | Website |
| Helgoland Marine Research | 1438-387X | ☑ | Springer Nature | 1672 | 35273 | 54.1 | Website |
| Известия Тихоокеанского научно-исследовательского рыбохозяйственного центра | 1606-9919 | ☑ | FSBSI TINRO Center | 605 | 349 | 54 | Website |
| Journal of Oceanography and Marine Science | 2141-2294 | Academic Journals | 34 | 148 | 52.9 | ||
| Aquatic sciences and engineering | 2602-473X | ☑ | Istanbul University | 123 | 113 | 52.8 | Website |
| Marine science and technology bulletin | 2147-9666 | ☑ | Marine Science and Technology Bulletin | 131 | 112 | 52.7 | Website |
| Animal Biotelemetry | 2050-3385 | ☑ | Springer Nature | 294 | 3740 | 52.7 | Website |
| Marine science | 2163-2421 | Scientific and Academic Publishing | 27 | 228 | 51.9 | ||
| Open Journal of Marine Science | 2161-7384 | Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. | 287 | 1212 | 51.6 | ||
| ECSOFIM (Economic and Social of Fisheries and Marine) | 2338-3100 | 138 | 21 | 51.4 |
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I publish my Fishery paper?
You can publish your Fishery paper in the Open Access journals in this list
What is Open Access (OA)?
Open Access aims to provide immediate and unrestricted access to research articles while along you to also share it freely
What does “relevance” mean in the table?
It refers to the level of association between a journal being listed and the concept it is listed under, from 0-100. For example, the Journal Of Physics Through Computation has a relevance of “100” when listed under “Open Access Computer Science Journals” because it has relevance to the field of Computer Science.
How do you count total number of citations?
The citations show how often works from this journal are referenced in other research papers. This data is obtained from OpenAlex. Even though the accuracy is debatable, it could help you determine how prestigious a journal is on the whole.
Where can I find other lists like this one?
To search for more open journal lists, look on OA.mg
How can I publish my paper on OA.mg?
At the moment, we do not offer publishing services, that's why we made these lists, so you can find the right journal to publish your paper in. Our goal with OA.mg is to help disseminate research.
What is an APC?
In some cases, articles published in journals are made open access and freely available online, immediately upon publication. This is made usually made possible by an article-processing charge (APC) that covers the range of publishing services provided.
What are the different Open Access types?
The most common types are “Green Open Access”, “Gold Open Access” and “Hybrid Open Access”.