Friday 21 November 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 Venue: Eden Grove Blue, Rhodes University The EAF-Nansen Programme of Norway/FAO, in collaboration with the NRF–South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (NRF-SAIAB), will commemorate World Fisheries Day 2025 as part of the NRF-SAIAB...

Thursday 20 November 2025, 09:00 – 17:00 Venue: Lecture Room Zoom Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/lLHzxeblRZKJY4xUmxjvLA Passcode: 555335 by EAF-Nansen Programme Post-Survey Workshop on Taxonomy Research Participants Following the success of the first Post-Survey Workshop on Taxonomy Research in 2024, the EAF-Nansen...

NRF-SAIAB Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Nompumelelo Baso-Mdiza, has been announced as the 2025 recipient of the prestigious Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Research Grant, valued at 150 000 USD – an achievement she describes as “surreal.” “It felt surreal when they called my...

This article was originally published in Quest Vol. 21 No. 1: “Feed the Future” , 2025 , authored by Archiebold Hlungwani (DFFE), Mandla Magoro (NRF-SAIAB), Lubabalo Mofu (NRF-SAIAB), Phumza Ndaleni (NRF-SAIAB), and Dumisani Khosa (SANParks). In a country where poverty...

NRF-SAIAB recently welcomed Dr. Barry Russell, a distinguished ichthyologist with over five decades of experience, for a five-week research visit. Dr. Russell, who is based at the Northern Territory Museum in Australia as Curator Emeritus of Fish, has dedicated his...