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The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) in Tenerife, Spain, will host a series of post-survey workshops in fish taxonomy research, organized by the EAF-Nansen Programme, to improve the capacity of scientists from the partner countries to conduct taxonomy work for better management of their fisheries resources.

Data collected from the EAF-Nansen Programme research surveys contribute to generating and improving scientific knowledge about marine resources and ecosystems in Programme partner countries. For some countries, this is the only opportunity to access research data that can be used as a basis for decision making. Furthermore, given the regional...

The identification of jellyfish species can be difficult, and it is often challenging for even the more experienced researchers. Together with the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the EAF-Nansen Programme has taken on the challenge of updating and broadening the understanding of jellyfish around Africa through a...

It is the fourth time that the research vessel – Dr Fridtjof Nansen – is returning to Northwest Africa to study transboundary bottom-dwelling (demersal) fisheries resources in the deeper part of the continental shelf and the upper slope of Northwest Africa, from Morocco to the southern border of Guinea. The...

Over the past month, the research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen has been on a scientific expedition to study the presence of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) on the Sierra Leone Rise in the eastern central Atlantic that may need to be protected from fishing activities.  In total, five seamounts...

International Day of Women and Girls in science, declared annually on 11 February by the United Nations, recognizes an important role of women and girls in science – not only as beneficiaries – but also as agents of change, towards achieving global sustainable development goals by 2030.    Reaching gender equality...