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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. Today the centre is a recognized institute within the Mediterranean network of marines centres and is integrated in a number of regional and international activities. The center remained fully operational even during the war years and has to its credit several major accomplishments such as the implementation to a national coastal monitoring programme, the general marine biodiversity survey, feasibility studies for contingency planning and mariculture development. In addition to its scientific activities, the centre is also credited with having organized the only activity as national contribution to the “Year of the Ocean” celebrations in 1998 –a major exhibition grouping for the first time the paintings of 40 local artistic around the theme of “ Man and the Sea”. 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.
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