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IFREMER French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea was created by decree of 5 June 1984, it is the only French organisation with an entirely maritime purpose. It operates under the joint auspices of the Ministries of "Education, Research and Technology", "Fisheries and Amenities", "Transport and Housing", and "Ecology and Sustainable Development". Being involved in all the marine science and technology fields, IFREMER has the capability of solving different problems with an integrated approach. Ifremer main missions can be summarized as follows:
- Ensure better knowledge, assessment, value enhancement and streamlining in the exploitation of marine resources
- Improve knowledge and means to protect and restore the marine environment
- Enhance the socio-economic development of the maritime world
- Provide assistance to the government, public authorities and organisations concerned with scientific, technical or economic research
- Create and manage facilities of national interest (fleet)
- Gather, disseminate and enhance national and international oceanographic information
- Contribute to implementing of agreements and conventions for international cooperation in the marine field
For the coastal environment, based on a long term experience of monitoring networks, instrumentation design and numerical modeling (coastal hydrodynamics, sediment transport and both pelagic and benthic ecology), Ifremer has launched in 2004 a full research Program on Operational Coastal Oceanography.
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