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A transboundary demersal survey in the South-Eastern Atlantic with the research vessel (R/V) Dr Fridtjof Nansen was organized from 28 February to 24 April (leg 2.1 and 2.2), and a mesopelagic transect was also organized...

The Coordinator and the entire EAF-Nansen Programme team would like to wish all our hardworking women, marine scientists and resource managers, a wonderful International Women’s Day! The EAF-Nansen Programme proudly continues to increase the capacities of women scientists and fisheries managers from Africa and the Bay of Bengal since the 1970s...

In August 2018, a post-survey meeting after the Dr. Fridtjof Nansen cruise 1.3 in 2018 was held in Maputo. At this meeting several research projects were identified to be carried out and the projects "Visual Seafloor Mapping of the Cabo Delgado, Mozambique" was one of them. The projects main goal...

As part of the 2019 work plan of the EAF-Nansen Programme, a survey was organized from 24 January to 25 February in the Convention Area of the South East Atlantic Fisheries Organization (SEAFO), to further enhance the understanding of Southeast Atlantic ecosystems as decided in 2015. In 2015, a similar...

The EAF-Nansen Programme organized a post survey meeting for the third leg of the surveys with Dr. Fridtjof Nansen in 2018, in Yangon from 19-21 February 2019. Participants from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, IMR and FAO met to discuss the main findings, finalize the survey reports and discuss further...

An event was organized on 28 January 2018 in Colombo, Sri Lanka,  to launch the main research findings of the survey carried out by the Norwegian Research Vessel Dr. Fridtjof Nansen in Sri Lanka during the past year. The research vessel completed an ecosystem survey in the coastal waters of Sri...