15 March 2022
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...
26 February 2022
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...
22 February 2022
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...
11 February 2022
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...
21 January 2022
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...
21 December 2021
‘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...