North American Association of Fisheries Economists

NAAFE is a global clutch of commerce, federal and academic experts of fisheries economics. Its prime sense to smooth communiqué amid North American fisheries and aquaculture economists in diligence, academe, ruling and other spaces, to encourage dialogue amongst economists and others involved in fisheries and aquaculture research, and to progress fisheries and aquaculture economics and its expedient applications. They encourage people to join NAAFE if they share major interest in fisheries board, aquaculture, further marine resources, the seafood commerce, native or worldwide vocation in seafood, or linked concerns. The society of the North American Association of Fisheries Economists is a volunteer work of fisheries economists from athwart North American who are concerned in firming communiqué in the profession. Through this web, their motive is to advance sturdy mutual associations and networks, and to acquire further info about the exertion that others are undertaking and scheduling, in order to increase the efficiency of the research, training, and fishery managing strategies.

The association organizes biennial IIFET meetings and the member say, they thoroughly enjoy an benefit attending them. The notion for a North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) and the North American Fisheries Economics Debate arose in January 2000 at a summit of the USDA-sponsored Western Coordinating Committee on Markets, Trade and Fisheries Management (WCC 109).

By organizing two-yearly fisheries economics meetings in diverse parts of North American in odd-numbered IIFET "off-years" (e.g. 2001, 2003, etc.) they furnish a steady occasion to encounter with North American contemporaries, which will bestow the valuable chance provided to commune with international counter-parts. 

NAAFE is formally conglomerated with both IIFET and MRE (Marine Resource Economics) and its chief goal is to reassure communication midst fisheries economists.