Plagiarism Screening Policy

Publisher of South China Fisheries Science is South China Sea Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. The members of the editorial office have been using a web-based programme AMLC (https://check.cnki.net/amlc2/ ) which compares documents and marks found similarities as a possible instance of plagiarism. This programme can be used during the editorial process of South China Fisheries Science when considered useful.

Open Access Policy

South China Fisheries Science is currently an open access journal. It changed to an open-access journal in 2017. The journal has its own website (https://www.schinafish.cn/ ) which acts as an easily accessible user interface to the journal. For all the articles published in the journal since the first issue of 2005, they are available (PDF-format) for free download from our official website for all readers free of charge immediately and permanently upon publication. 

Conflicts of Interests Policy

South China Fisheries Science requires that each author reveals any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. In addition, financial competing interests, such as awards, pending patents, and ownership of stock shares/options, along with non-financial competing interests, such as advisory board members, related consulting services, and personal relationships, are also required to be disclosed by authors.

License Policy

South China Fisheries Science is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). This license allows reusers to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format if the license terms below are followed:

• Reusers must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.

• Reusers may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses the use.

• Reusers may not use the material for commercial purposes.

• If reusers remix, transform, or build upon the material, they may not distribute the modified material.

• Authors have right to spread or make use of the article under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License.

The full details of the license are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/