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*This news item is also available in French The capital of Mauritania, Nouakchott, hosted the sixth session of the Fishery Committee of the Eastern Central Atlantic (CECAF) Working Group on the Assessment of Demersal Resources – Sub-group North- held from the 2nd to 10th December 2019. In total, 18...

High-level representatives from Norway and Myanmar, together with the FAO Representation, gathered yesterday in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, for an official presentation of the results of the marine ecosystem survey conducted in the country's waters in 2018. This survey formed part of a regional coverage of the Bay of Bengal...

For the first time, a regional training course on basic taxonomy and identification of marine species and macroinvertebrates was organized by the EAF-Nansen Programme from 15 to 26 July 2019 at the Directorate of Fisheries in Yangon, Myanmar. Twenty-three participants from Myanmar, Thailand and Sri Lanka attended the workshop ran by...

*This news item is also available in French 5-6 November | Cotonou, Benin. During the first week of November, EAF-Nansen Programme's partners and key stakeholders are gathering at the 2019 Forum in Cotonou, Benin. Under the theme Sustainability of Fisheries in the Context of EAF, the meeting will...

24-25 September 2019, Dakar, Senegal. Since 2017, the EAF-Nansen Programme has included studies of ocean acidification as part of its research program. In this regard, the laboratory on the research vessel (R/V) Dr Fridtjof Nansen was equipped with instrumentation for measurements of seawater pH and total alkalinity.

In 2017, "Nutrition and Food Safety" was implemented as its own theme in the new phase of the EAF-Nansen Programme for the first time. This research area is intended to increase knowledge on the nutritional importance of fish as food in developing countries. Fish and other seafoods have until now...