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
Le Programme EAF-Nansen, financé par l’agence norvégienne de coopération pour le développement (Norad) et mis en œuvre par l’Organisation des Nations Unies pour l’alimentation et l’agriculture (FAO) avec le soutien scientifique de l’Institut de recherche marine (IMR) norvégien, est heureux d’annoncer une opportunité de recherche pour 10 étudiants diplômés, déjà...
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...
03 July 2020
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in March, 21 scientists from Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia and Spain, in addition to the Norwegian scientific core team and crew were already partway through a voyage off the coast of northwest Africa. Unable to continue with its research voyage, the Dr Fridtjof Nansen...
02 July 2020
In the last decade, the implementation of the ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) through legal and policy instruments has been promoted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in various activities, including the preparation of studies, tools and guides. One of the more recent tools is...