Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences

 This is a scientific journal reporting on research in aquatic disciplines related to fisheries. IJFS is published four times per annum under permission of the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

 Research papers on fisheries and fishery-related subjects will be considered for publication. All material submitted must be original and unpublished works. Three categories of papers are considered for publication: “Original research papers”, “Short communications” and “Reviews”.

 Result of the living various species (contains animals and vegetal species) in various aquatic ecosystems, methods of propagation and culture of high value aquatic resources, pollutant agents and their effects to the environments of aquatic species, feeding, health and diseases of aquatic species, Research on fish processing and producing new products, approaching the best protection and stocks recovering and sustainable exploitation from live resources  and finally economic and social aspects of fisheries are the main scopes of the journal.

 The journal has been published since 1999 by the Iranian Fisheries Science Research Institute (IFSRI), Iran.
Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences  Open Access Policy
All articles of the Journal are Open Access:    Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences follows the terms outlined by the Creative Common's Attribution (CC-BY) to be the standard terms for Open Access.
“This journal is following of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the highest ethical standards in accordance with ethical laws”.
This Journal index in: Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Essential Science Indicators, Zoological Record, Scopus, Web of Science, ISC, SID

Plagiarism
   All manuscripts submitted for publication to the  Iranian Journal of Fisheries Sciences, will be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate software. The similarity index should not exceed 25%.

Fee
The fee for publishing for Iranian authors is 900000 IRI and for foreign authors is free.

  Research centers of the IFSRI at a glance:

  Scientific board memberships: 145 persons, Ph.D:100 persons and non-scientific board

  researchers: 500 persons.

  1-South Iran Aquaculture Research Center, Khouzestan

  2-Iran Shrimp research center, Bushehr

  3-Persian Gulf & Oman Sea Ecological Research Center, Hormozgan

  4-Offshore Fisheries Research center, Sistan & Baloochestan

  5-Genetic & Breeding of Cold water Fish Research center, Kohgilouyeh & Bouyerahmad

  6-Iranian Artemia Research Center, West Azarbayjan

  7-Inland Water Aquaculture Research Center, Gilan

  8-International Sturgeon Research Center (ISRC), Gilan

  9-National Fish Processing Research Center, Gilan

  10-Ecological Research Center of the Caspian Sea, Mazandaran

  11- Inland water- Stock assessment Fisheries Research Center, Golestan