Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre (NAFC) belongs to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans of Canada (DFO) and its mission is to provide information and advice to support conservation, protection, and sustainable utilization of marine and aquatic resources. Research focuses on biology, life history, and resource evaluations of commercially important fishes and marine mammals, oceanography, ecosystem studies, aquaculture, environmental sciences, and habitat protection.
The NAFC, through the research scientists Joanne Morgan and Mariano Koen-Alonso collaborates in the project GADCAP by providing information and data, as well as their experience, from the DFO-Canada research surveys conducted in Flemish Cap on February from 1977 to 1985.