Exp Year: 2010

Exp Name: Distribution & movement of tunas,swordfish and sharks within the SWIO

Sampling Method: Satellite tags (PSAT & SPOT), spaghetti tags, long line sets

Research Period: 19 October –November

Geographic Range: Cape Point to 1 Bird Island

Num Sampling Stations: CTD - 40

Responsible Institutions: Agriculture, forestry &isheries department,RSA

Reference Notes: SWIOFP/South Africa on request

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Kenya Shallow-water CrustaceanTrawl Survey

Sampling Method: None TED and TEDed trawlnets, stratified sampling

Research Period: 21 January to February

Geographic Range: Ungwana Bay 4

Num Sampling Stations: Fishing transects - 40

Responsible Institutions: Kenya Marine and - Fisheries Research Institut

Reference Notes: Data available at KMFRI

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Instrumented Longline Trainingsurvey on (Large pelagics ) – Reunion (France)

Research Period: 27 February - 3 March

Responsible Institutions: IRD – France

Reference Notes: Data available on request at IRD

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Kenya Shallow-water CrustaceanTrawl Survey

Sampling Method: Salinity, Secchi disc depth,Sea Surface Temperature(SST), Dissolved Oxygen(DO), wind direction andwind force (Beaufort scale). chlorophyll-a, totalsuspended matter, nutrients, bottom sediment organic mattercontent and grain, zooplankton

Research Period: 21 May - 4 June

Geographic Range: Ungwana

Num Sampling Stations: Fishing transects - 40

Responsible Institutions: Kenya Marine and - Fisheries Research Institute

Reference Notes: Data available at KMFRI

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Tanzania Shallow-water CrustaceanTrawl Survey

Sampling Method: Trawl nets, CTD

Research Period: 5 – 19 June

Geographic Range: Bagamoyo/S aadani; Rufuji delta; Jaja/Kilwa

Responsible Institutions: Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute

Reference Notes: Data available at TAFIRI

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Tanzania Acoustic and Demersal Trawl

Research Period: 3 to 22 August

Reference Notes: Data available at TAFIRI

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Mozambique Deep-water Crustacean Trawl Survey

Sampling Method: CTD & Niskin (depth, temperature, salinity, oxygen & chl-a, bottomtrawl, line transect

Research Period: 21 October - 11 November

Geographic Range: Inhaca north,Boa Paz and Bazaruto fishing grounds

Num Sampling Stations: 90 stations

Responsible Institutions: Instituto de InvestigacaoPesqueiro

Reference Notes: Data available at IIP

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: SW Moz Channel Large pelagics(swordfish & large tuna) Survey

Research Period: 11 October - 2 November

Reference Notes: More details could be obtained from IIP

Exp Year: 2011

Exp Name: Benthic biodiversity of seamounts in the Southwest Indian Ocean – Seamounts expedition

Sampling Method: Cores, grabs and ROV (remotely operated vehicle), multibeam mapping, CTD, turbulenceprobes, water filtration formicrobial communities, ADCP

Research Period: 7 November –21 December

Geographic Range: Coral seamount, Melville Bank, Middleof What Seamount, Sapmer Seamount, Atlantis Bank

Reference Notes: More details could be obtained from ASCLME PCU

Exp Year: 2012

Exp Name: Kenya Deep-water Crustacean TrawlSurvey

Sampling Method: CTD (temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity, conductivity, depth profiles, chl-a), wind, current, turbidity, depthand bottom type, bottomtrawl

Research Period: 23 February to 7 March

Geographic Range: - Off Malindi, Ngomeni, Kilifi and Chale

Responsible Institutions: KMFRI

Reference Notes: Data available at KMFR