Fishery and Oceanographic Research Vessel the R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen

Fishery and oceanographic research Vessel

The R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen

The research vessel (R/V) Dr Fridtjof Nansen is a state including fisheries acoustics, oceanography, geology, of the art research vessel that serves the countries bottom habitat investigations, and pollution studies. partnered to the EAF-Nansen Programme, “Supporting The current R/V Dr Fridtjof Nansen is the third research the Application of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries vessel to bear the name. The first vessel was launched management considering climate and pollution in 1974 and served for 19 years. The second vessel was impacts”, to generate knowledge on marine resources built in 1993 and sailed over 605 000 nautical miles until and ecosystems within their exclusive economic zones its retirement in 2016. The current vessel is owned by (EEZs). The vessel also partners with regional fisheries the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation management organizations or arrangements (RFMO/As) (Norad), and operated by the Norwegian Institute of for dedicated surveys to help identify vulnerable marine Marine Research (IMR) in close consultation with the ecosystems. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Advanced gears and technologies, as well as excellent (FAO). FAO is responsible for the implementation of the working conditions onboard, allow multidisciplinary EAF-Nansen Programme and enabling the vessel to fly research covering various aspects of marine science the United Nations flag as a house flag.

Fishery and Oceanographic research Vessel

weighing Accommodation for 74.5 m just over SURVEY SPEED IN LENGTH 3 850 28 15 TONNES 11 knots SCIENTISTS CREW Facilities Examples of fishing and scientific equipment

The vessel has 7 laboratories: • Pelagic and demersal trawls, • CTD with water sampling • Benthos/Plankton/ gillnets, pots and longlines for rosette Sediment laboratory fish sampling • Plankton nets • CTD laboratory • Winches for deploying and • Manta trawl for microplastics hauling fishing and scientific • Dry laboratory sampling equipment • Climate laboratory • Multibeam echosounder for • Fish wet laboratory medium and deep water • Fish dry laboratory • Advanced fish sonars • Acoustic operation centre • Sub-bottom Profiler The vessel is also equipped • Box corers with a scientific workboat For more information: • Video Assisted Multi Sampler with specialized fishing and THE EAF-NANSEN PROGRAMME (VAMS) scientific equipment for COORDINATOR shallow water work. Marine and Inland Fisheries Branch Fisheries and Aquaculture Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome ITALY [email protected] http://www.fao.org/in-action/ eaf-nansen/en/ 4 /1/