The National Institute of
Oceanography and Fisheries
(NIOF) is one of the twelve
national research institutions affiliated to the
Ministry of State for Scientific Research of
Egypt that are dealing with different fields of
science and technology, with specific mandate of
national relevance, assigned to each institute.
According to the Presidential
Decree No. 436 of 1986, the explicit
mandate of NIOF is to "maintain, protect and
promote the different Egyptian aquatic
environments".
Historically, the National Institute of
Oceanography and Fisheries was first established
in 1924 as the Hydrobiological Institute of the
Egyptian Fisheries Directorate, and was located
at El-Shatby in Alexandria. At a later date in
1931, it was renamed as "The Alexandria
Institute of Hydrobiology" and relocated at
Keyed Bey on the Eastern Harbor of Alexandria,
where the Mediterranean Branch of NIOF is
presently located. In the mean time, a Marine
Biological Station was established in 1928 at
Hurghada on the Red Sea for the Zoology
Department of the Egyptian (currently Cairo)
University. In structure of
NIOF
NIOF
Mission
The
Mission of the National Institute of
Oceanography and Fisheries is " to
achieve sustainable development of marine and
fresh water resources through increasing their
potentials for food all sources ad working
towards reducing poverty and improving the
standard of living by developing and introducing
new techniques in fisheries and
aquaculture.
The above
"Mission" could only br achieved
through basic scientific and applied research
activities in different fields of oceanography.
Fisheries and aquaculture.
In
this context recent technological
advanced in aquatic researches enabled
researchers and research institutions world-wide
to obtain accurate information on the different
aquatic environments and hence improve our
knowledge of the economic resources in seas ,
lagoons and fresh water bodies and our
understanding of their interactions with the
influencing factors withing and outside these
environments.
with the above in view,
NIOF gives high priority to applied research,
focusing on the role of fisheries and
aquaculture in improving the standard of living
of the Egyptian society, and in attaining the
environmental sustainability.
NIOF Aims and
Objectives
The main aims and objectives of
NIOF could be summarized in the following
I Maintaining,
promoting and conserving the water envitonments
and their natural resources
through:
- Providing data information about
the Egyptian aquatic areas.
- Studing and monitoring the physical,
chemical biological changes in the Egyptian
waters,
- Designing and using new and modern
technologies for examining the topographic
features and exploring the resources under the
Egyptian sea beds.
- Investigating possible hazardous
phenomena such as storm surges, coastal erosion
and the sudden increase of the sea water level,
tsunamis, ... etc.
II Promoting the fish
production as main food source
through:
- Exploting the natural resources in a
rational manner
- Discovering new fishing grounds
- Developing the fishing gears and methods
for mid- and deep-water fisheries managements to
protect the fish stocks
III Increasing fish
productivity through:
- Developing and introducing new methods of
fish culture in marine floating aquaculture
cages
- Developing fish hatcheries and increasing
their productivities
- Intensifying research on protecting
fishes against fish diseases, and keeping a high
rate of fish production
Main Partners and Collaborating
Institutions
1- National
- National Research Center
- National Agency for Remote Sensing and
Space Sciences (NARS)
- Mubarak City for Scientific
Research
- Institute of Graduate studies and
Research, Alexandria University
- Department of Oceanography, Alexandria
University
- Department of Oceanography, Suez Canal
University
- Faculties of Science (Cairo University,
Alexandria University, Ein
Shams University, Al-Azhar University,
Tanta University,
Damietta University,.....)
- Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency
(EEAA), Ministry of state for Environmental
Affairs
- General Authority for Fish Resources
Development (GAFRD), Ministry of
Agriculture
- The Arab Academy for Science and
Technology and Maritime Transport
- Medical Research Institute, Alexandria
University
2- International
- BGR Institute, Germany
- International Ocean Institute
(IOI)
- Steven's Institute of Technology,
USA
- Xiamen Science & Technology
Commission, China
- Hellenic Center for MArine Research,
Greece
- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
I'Environnement, Domaine du CNRS, France
- World Fish Center, Challenge Program on
Water and Food (CPWF)
- Oceanography Research Center, Yeme
- National Institute for Ocean Science and
Technology, Tunisia
- Marine Science Station, Aqaba,
Jordan