[1] It is a privately held company founded in Tokyo in 1995 by Yasuo Kunimitsu and Andre Daniel Loubet-Jambert, providing a broad range of information on fishing, seafood, and aquaculture.

[2][3] According to the publisher, the site — which is available in three languages: English, Japanese and Spanish — receives approximately 330,000 pageviews per month.

The FIS website includes over 17,000 published articles on topics from environmental issues to changes in the market.

Goods are traded in four main categories: seafood, aquaculture, fishing vessels and machinery.

In 2001, the company set up an office in Agadir to cover Africa and the Middle East, publishing fishery information in Arabic.