15 July 2018
From 26 June to 01 July the FAO working group in the assessment of Small Pelagic fish off Northwest Africa was held at Banjul, the Gambia. The working group on the assessment of small pelagic resources, set up in 2001, has as overall objective to assess the state of the...
05 July 2018
From 3 to 5 July 2018, a workshop was held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to discuss the...
04 June 2018
4 June 2018 - Calling into Port Louis, Mauritius, the scientific party of the RV Dr Fridtjof Nansen concludes their one-month study of the geomorphology, physico-chemical conditions, plants and animals of the Saya de Malha and Nazareth Banks on the Mascarene Ridge in the Western Indian Ocean. Data and collections...
24 May 2018
On 24 and 25 May 2018, a pre-survey meeting was held in Yangon Myanmar, to discuss sampling design, proposed sampling gears and the sailing order for the survey that will be carried out in September 2018. The programme for the events that will be held on 12 and 13 September...
22 May 2018
Surveys at sea offer unique tool to document marine biodiversity. At the request of the Myanmar Government, the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen undertook an ecosystem survey in the EEZ of Myanmar in 2015. In this survey seven new fish species were discovered and formally described. Among them are two new...
22 May 2018
Surveys at sea offer unique tool to document marine biodiversity. At the request of the Myanmar Government, the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen undertook an ecosystem survey in the EEZ of Myanmar in 2015.