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The regional inception meeting on the "Shared Sardinella" project, under the auspices of the EAF-Nansen Programme, took place from 11 to 14 February at the FAO Headquarters in Rome. Fifteen participants from Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, the Gambia, Norway, and FAO gathered together to foster closer collaboration in research and management...

The Nansen Programme has been operating since 1975, and evolving through various phases in time. In its current stage, the Programme is known as the EAF-Nansen Programme with its long-term objective that: "sustainable fisheries improve food and nutrition security for people in partner countries." Since 2006, a key purpose of...

The second workshop within the project "visual habitat mapping of the Cabo Delgado" took place from 18 to 22 November 2019 at the Institute of Marine Research in Bergen, Norway, and gathered altogether 12 participants, including five representatives from Mozambique.

The EAF-Nansen Programme's partners and key stakeholders convened last month for a series of meetings organised in Cotonou, Benin, from 4-7 November. The first day was devoted to the Programme's Steering Committee on Global Issues and Other Areas; the next two days were dedicated to the Annual Forum, with...

Artisanal fishers from a fishing community in Avlékéte in Benin wake up every day at dawn to cast the nets in the sea for the next several hours. The nets are often set from shore to encircle a school of fish, but they can also be set at some distance...

The development of a new international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ) continued with the third session of an Intergovernmental Conference – referred...