The ecosystem research programme in the Barents Sea is the largest single expedition carried out by Norway’s Institute of Marine Research (IMR), covering the area off the coast of Troms and Finnmark, toward the sea north of Svalbard and further east into the Russian zone
No reason was given for the denial, which has “created difficulties for the scientific investigations we carry out in co-operation with Russian colleagues from PINRO, Murmansk,” Ole Misund, IMR research director, told Intrafish.
The joint research surveys are crucial for abundance estimations of the major fish stocks in the Barents Sea, especially the valuable target species capelin, he said.
“This
