17 December 2020
A series of online regional workshops took place from September to December 2020, to train 72 country representatives (45 men and 36 women) from Africa and South-East Asia on how to use a diagnostic tool on implementing an ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) through policy and legal frameworks...
27 November 2020
The first of the workshop series under Capacity Development initiative of the EAF-Nansen Programme: “Monitoring and Assessing Data and Capacity-Poor Fisheries in the context of Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries” was held from 25 to 26 November 2020. These two-day virtual sessions brought together 51 participants from 16 countries with the...
12 October 2020
How can we best advance the empowerment of women scientists for the UN Decade of Ocean Science and how can the gender-gap in maritime and ocean related industries be addressed and identified? This was the question that set the scene for the third workshop on Empowering Women for the UN...
06 October 2020
Within the pelagic zone – the ecological realm that includes the entire ocean water column – the mesopelagic zone is an intermediate ocean layer that extends between depths of 200 and 1 000 m below the ocean surface, and is one of the largest ecosystems on earth. Mesopelagic fish are...
24 September 2020
The EAF-Nansen Programme, funded by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) and executed by FAO with the scientific support of the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway (IMR), is pleased to announce a research opportunity for 10 graduate students, already admitted on a Master’s or a Ph.D. programme...
17 July 2020
Ghana, Benin, Liberia, Nigeria and Togo are among six CECAF member states to have run a stakeholder consultative workshop, aimed at analysing the challenges of an effective implementation of CECAF scientific advice into fisheries management at the national level. The workshops are part of a series of case studies conducted...