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Nansen’s first scientific survey in 2022 is taking the research vessel - Dr Fridtjof Nansen - to survey a number of selected seamounts of the Sierra Leone Rise, in areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ), within the area of the Fishery Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF). During the...

‘Pitambori’ is how local fishermen call guitarfish species found in Bangladesh. It is also how they refer to a newly discovered species - Glaucostegus younholeei – described on the basis of 13 specimens collected at a fish landing site in Cox’s Bazar district in Bangladesh. Even though the species belongs...

After one month of surveying the waters around the Cabo Verde Islands, the research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen returned to port in Las Palmas, Spain. In total, more than 400 fish and invertebrate species were documented during the survey carried out from 19 November to 15 December within the framework of...

The research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen of the EAF-Nansen Programme, has just taken off for another month-long research expedition, this time around the Cabo Verde Islands. On board is a team of scientists from the Norwegian Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the Institute of Sea (IMar) in Cabo Verde,...

The first Nansen research survey this year has just come to an end. Twenty seven scientists on board the research vessel - Dr Fridtjof Nansen - spent the past three weeks in Northwest Africa. The scientific crew – which featured scientists and technicians from Norway, Mauritania and Senegal – carried...

On Saturday 9 October 2021, the research vessel, Dr Fridtjof Nansen, set sail for Las Palmas, in the Canary Islands, to restart the research surveys as part of the EAF-Nansen Programme. It has been a long time coming, after a long break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, which forced...