Areas of scientific responsibility:

• Support the Norwegian fishing industry by developing and adapting energy-efficient, environmentally and resources-friendly capture methods
• Provide suitable conditions for scientifically based technical regulation of fisheries and contribute to the analysis and evaluation of the consequences of such regulations
• Contribute to more accurate and precise stock assessments through improved gear-based sampling
• Support developing countries by supplying expertise in fish-capture technology
• Supply fish-capture expertise to regional, national and international processes

Expertise:

• Catch-related behaviour general expertise in passive (fish-pot, long-line, gillnet) and active (trawl, deepwater trawl , seine-net) gears
• By-catch, unintended mortality, habitat impact and energy consumption of different types of gears
• Interactions between petroleum and fishing activities
• Experimental methodology and the development and operation of instrumentation for fish-capture and behavioural experiments
• Data-processing and statistics, and processing of video and photo material