Centre for Development Cooperation in Fisheries (CFCF) consist of aquaculture experts from the Directorate of Fisheries and the Institute of Marine Research.

CDCF has over the years cooperated in fisheries research in many developing countries. Much of this activity has been linked to the “Nansen Programme”, but a number of independent projects have also been carried out. Currently, CDCF is involved in fisheries research programmes in Angola, Indonesia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Thailand.

Environmental monitoring and impact assessment is implemented in all CDCF’s activities. Through the extensive activities of the research vessel “Dr. Fridtjof Nansen” we have provided long time series of fisheries and water quality in the south eastern Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, which are now becoming increasingly important in studies for understanding biodiversity- and climatic changes.

CDCF work aims at securing sustainable management of living marine fisheries and aquaculture. Management includes “everything” that relevant governmental or otherwise nominated public institutions undertake in order to ensure the orderly utilization and conservation of marine living resources, whether wild captured or cultivated. It also includes the regulation of the further processing and marketing of those resources, for instance with regard to standards of hygiene, product quality and food safety.