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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...

More than 100 participants from 32 coastal countries in Africa and the Bay of Bengal, and four regional organizations joined two intense days of the EAF-Nansen Programme Forum, filled up with presentations, plenary discussions and group work related to the three core areas of the programme’s regular work: science, fisheries...

Small pelagic fish represent nearly 70 percent of catches in Northwest Africa. In Mauritania, for example, they constitute 90 percent of the total annual catches that arise to around 1.400.000 tonnes, explains Dr Cheikh Baye...