A key to effective fisheries management is good communication within the management community. New technologies now allow communication at a speed and depth of information not possible even a few years ago.  These technologies are being applied to vessel monitoring systems and fishery information networks worldwide.  New systems are usually designed to meet a narrowly defined need, with little consideration for broader possibilities within individual fisheries or among fisheries and fishery sectors. Tighter information linkages among fishermen, scientists, managers, marketers, and the public can lead to new collaborations within the fishery community.  This opens up opportunities to improve fishery science, rationalize harvest while conserving stocks, and create new marketing strategies.  At the same time, fishermen may take a more active role in data collection and analysis, leading to changes in the social structure of the management community. In our view, this change is necessary to the future of fisheries. In this symposium we will explore a new range of possibilities for fishery management and science, identifying opportunities based on modern communication and data collection technologies. We will explore the nature and direction of desirable change and identify incentives for and impediments to change.  The hope is to foster the use of new information technologies to improve the enterprise of fishing in the broadest sense.