The IOF’s research and outreach engagement activities are made possible through a global network of partners, colleagues, sponsors, associations, and collaborators. Key colleagues are listed here in accordance to their affiliation with an IOF research unit.
Some collaborations span multiple units.
- Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership
- First Nations Fisheries Council
- First Nations Fisheries Legacy Fund (Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Tsawwassen and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations)
- Great Lakes Fishery Commission
- Lhaq'temish Foundation
- Raincoast Conservation Foundation
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK
- Centre for Marine Futures, The University of Western Australia
- East China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, China
- Fishbase and Sealifebase
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University
- National Geographic Society
- Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK
- Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
- Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre
- The Third Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration, China
- Too Big to Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research
- University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, UK
- University of Plymouth, UK
- Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, China
- Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, UK
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research
- University of Namibia, Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Resources
- University of San Francisco
- University of Tromsø, Norway
- University of Western Cape, Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies, South Africa
- World Bank
- World Wide Fund for Nature
- Ecopath Research and Development Consortium
- Fishbase and Sealifebase
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research
- ICM/CSIC, Barcelona
- OceanWise/Vancouver Aquarium
- Pacific Salmon Foundation
- Tsleil-Waututh Nation
- Ecopath International Initiative
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
- Marine Ecosystems and Fisheries Lab
- Guylian Belgium Chocolates
- The Zoological Society of London
- Hirosaki University, Japan
- Indianapolis Zoo
- Langar Foundation
- Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund
- Ocean Park Conservation Foundation, Hong Kong
- Oceanario de Lisboa, Portugal
- Center for Marine Sciences, University of Algarve, Portugal
- Knysna Basin Project, South Africa
- NatureServe
- Fisheries NSW, Australia
- Chandrakasem Rajabhat University, Thailand
- Save Our Seahorses Malaysia
- South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Peau-Bleue, France
- People’s Trust for Endangered Species
- Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium
- Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO), University of Porto, Portugal
- SSB Charitable Corporation
- State University of Paraíba (UEPB), Brazil
- Synchronicity Earth
- Taiwan Forestry Bureau, COA
- The Herbert W. Hoover Foundation
- The National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina (CONICET)
- The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation
- University of Tampa, USA
- Vivekananda College, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, India
- Area A Fishermen’s Association for Dungeness Crab in British Columbia
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Ministry of Environment, British Columbia
- NSERC Canadian Fisheries Research Network
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)
- Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
- South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI)
- SMRU Consulting
- Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- North Pacific Research Board (NPRB)
- Marine Mammal Commission (MMC)
- Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program
- Kenneth M Molson Foundation