The FBA’s strategic objectives in pursuit of its vision are as follows:

• To meet the information needs of those involved in freshwater research and management (whether as amateurs or professionals) by maintaining specialist information resources, along with effective knowledge transfer and knowledge exchange mechanisms
• To support high quality research in freshwater science by providing grants, international standard research facilities and mechanisms for facilitating research partnerships
• To maintain itself as a thriving membership organisation in which those committed to
  freshwater biology can share common interests

In order to undertake our strategy the FBA will:

• maintain a complement of staff and honorary research fellows with the expertise to
  respond to requests for information or advice
• develop and maintain mechanisms for generating income

In all its activities the FBA recognises that it depends entirely on its own resources, or resources that it can obtain through application to grant-giving bodies. To succeed it will demonstrate that it is working in accordance with sound business principles. It will fill a niche that others do not occupy, and/or do the things it sets out to do better than its competitors. Wherever possible it will work with, rather than against, organisations with similar objectives. It will operate with transparency and accountability and will report its activities fully and fairly.