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 National Centre for Marine Sciences - background The National Centre for Marine Sciences (NCMS) was established in 1977. The decision to establish such a centre (1975) was the national response to the 1972 Stockholm Conference. The Ford Foundation and Unesco played important roles during the formative years. The centre is a recognized institute within the Mediterranean network of marine’s centers and is integrated in a number of regional and international activities. The library of the centre is open to the specialists and interested public and is the national depository centre for all the publications of the Intergovernmental Oceonographic Commission. The main mandates of the centre are to: -Supervise permanently the coastal zone and the sea by creating a national network of observation. (Modeling of the cycles of the contaminating and usage of the bio indicator). -Evaluate the specific diversity by characterizing the migrant communities and their habitats. -Produce, transform and transfer the matter in the coastal and marine ecosystems.
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