Abstract
The European Union Gulf of Guinea collaborative research project on the impacts of environmental forcing on marine biodiversity was supported by the International Cooperation with Developing Countries Programme (INCO-DC). It was a natural sequel to three earlier international research projects on environmental variability and pelagic fishery resources in West Africa ( Cury and Roy 1991 ; Bard and Koranteng 1995 ; Durand et al. 1998 ). At its conclusion, the project was able to provide an assessment of the impacts of upwelling and other forms of environmental forcing on marine biodiversity, with particular reference to demersal fish, and the basis for a fisheries information and analysis system for the sustainable management of fisheries in West Africa. It also facilitated the retrieval of important fisheries and survey data that had previously been inaccessible to scientists in the region. The major achievements of the project were presented at an international workshop on “Sustainable Management of the Fish Resources in the Gulf of Guinea” held in Accra in 1998.
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