28 March 2023
For decades, the EAF-Nansen Programme has collected data and information on demersal and pelagic sharks across the globe, creating one of the largest pools of shark records in the world that can be critical to better understanding these fascinating and valuable, yet poorly...
08 March 2023
Casablanca, Morocco – “My background is in geomatics which is the discipline of gathering, processing and presenting geographic data, but I am particularly interested in ocean mapping” says Ms Hayat Ben-ayad, a 25-year-old Master’s Degree student at the Faculty of Sciences at the Hassan II University in Casablanca,...
06 March 2023
6-10 March 2023, Senegal – The EAF-Nansen Programme met with key fisheries stakeholders from Saint Louis, Joal (including M'bour) and Kafountine in Senegal, to discuss the process of developing a management plan for the Sardinella fishery according to the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF), with management...
10 February 2023
10 February 2023, Luanda, Angola – Angola welcomed the research vessel Dr Fridtjof Nansen as she arrived in the port of Luanda for the start of the first research survey in 2023. On the occasion, the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of the Republic of...
16 January 2023
16-20 January 2023, Tenerife, Spain – Seven scientists participated in the first fish taxonomy research workshop organized by the EAF-Nansen Programme in collaboration with the Spanish Institute of Oceanography in Tenerife (IEO
16 December 2022
Capacity building and exchanging knowledge is an important part of surveys on the Dr Fridtjof Nansen. Here are scientists discussing the sampling procedures in the fish lab. © IMR
16 December 2022, Las Palmas, Tenerife – The EAF-Nansen Programme has successfully completed two research surveys to study transboundary small pelagic...