Åsmund Bjordal Centre for Development Cooperation in Fisheries (CDCF)

Institute of Marine Research (IMR)

Value Creation in Ocean Space South Africa – Norway Science Week

Pretoria/Cape Town, 31 Oct – 4 Nov, 2016

The Nansen Programme – and cooperation in education and training

Centre for Development Cooperation in Fisheries

CDCF

Coordinates expertise from 5 governmental institutions:

• Institute of Marine Research • The Directorate of Fisheries • The national institute for seafood and nutrition

research (NIFES) • The veterinary institute • The food safety authority

Center for Development Cooperation in Fisheries (CDCF)

CDCF: Contribute to Sustainable Utilisation of Living Marine Resources in Developing

Countries

Capture Fisheries

Aquaculture Environment

Policy & Managem

ent

Ecosystem

Development co-operation and capacity building since 1952

Current projects: • AFRICA • Angola • Mauritius • Mozambique • Namibia • Nigeria • Sudan • ASIA • China • Malaysia

• Myanmar • Sri lanka • Thailand • LATIN AMERICA • Cuba • More than 60 countries

through the Nansen Program over 40 years.

• 2016: Namibia, Angola, Ghana, Congo-Gabon June: the vessel transferred from Norad to IMR

The original idea, conceived in the 1960s: • A research vessel available for developing nations. • Operated from Norway with Norwegian crew and

core scientific staff • In close cooperation with FAO, uncoupled from

Norwegian fishery interests, flying the UN-flag • First vessel left Norway in 1974

The Nansen Program

The Dr. Fridtjof Nansen RVs named after the multitalented:

• Marine biologist • Oceanographer • Explorer • Athlete • Author • Artist • Ambassador • Humanitarian and Nobel peace price laureat Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930)

Dr Fridtjof Nansen (I) ready for leaving Bergen, Norway 1974

Dr. Fridtjof Nansen (II) 1993 - 2016

R/V Kristine Bonnevie (ex Dr. Fridtjof Nansen)

Delivery December 2016 In regular operation, April 2017

Existing vs new vessel • Built 1993 2016 • Length over all 56,8 m 74,5 m • Width 12,5 m 17,4 m • Draft 6,6 m 6,4 m • No of cabins 23 32 • No of berths 28 45 • Engine power 1980 kW 3900 kW • No of laboratories 3 7 • Lecture room/auditorium No Yes • ICES 209 noise classification No Yes • Dynamic positioning No Yes • Work boat No Yes • Observatory (birds/mammals) No Yes

• Fish: 4600 species (2500 in photo data

base) • Invertebrates: 1800 species + (plankton,

arthropods/crustaceans, echinoderms, bivalves, gastropods, cephalopods, reptiles………)

• In otherwise data poor ocean areas

Marine biodiversity/Nansen: species collected in trawls,

grabs and plankton nets

Regional approaches in the Nansen Programme

NW-Africa

Benguela BENEFIT

Swimming sea cucumber

1000 m depth Ghana

Deep coral reef in Ghana (Lophelia) 4-500 m depth Studied using Video grab

On the job training at sea

NEW PROGRAM: FISH FOR DEVELOPMENT

• 3 main areas: • Education and research (including the EAF Nansen

program) • Business development (including aquaculture) • Management and legal issues

1.Education and research (including the EAF Nansen

program) • Continue and expand the EAF-Nansen program • Extend the Hjort center for ecosystem dynamic

studies in Bergen to provide guidance to researchers from development countries in utilizing data from the Nansen data base. (Part of the new EAF-Nansen Program: The EAF-Nansen Science Consortium)

• Technical training center for fisheries and aquaculture in Africa

The Nansen Science Consortium

• Main goal: to increase the scientific output from the Nansen-data (publications)

• Secretariat located at IMR – cooperating with the Hjort centre

• The work will be organized in regional working groups – inspired by the NansClim model (Benguela).

• Budget: about 5 mill NOK/year

Technical training center for fisheries and aquaculture in Africa

• Goal: to increase the capacity in

technical diciplines related to fisheries research and management

• Will offer a selection of short courses (1-3 weeks) – e.g. hydroacoustics, stock assessment, survey design, fisheries statistics…..

New Nansen program phase (2017-2021): Fish resources still central – but wider scope, including monitoring the state of the marine ecosystems, biodiversity, acidification and

impacts of climate change.

Questions?

Se: www.cdcf.no and www.eaf-nansen.org