A number of foreign marine scientific research programmes (FMSR) are undertaken in Irish waters each year. Summary details of the surveys are available in the table below.
If you're interested in participating in any of these surveys as the Irish Observer onboard, please see details of our Foreign Vessel Observer Scheme to check that you qualify.
FOREIGN MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SURVEYS 2019
| COUNTRY | VESSEL NAME | LOCATION | CRUISE OBJECTIVES | FROM(DATE) | TO(DATE) | IRISH OBSERVER |
| UK | Cefas Endeavour | Celtic Sea | Groundfish Survey using otter trawl | 05/02/2019 | 19/02/2019 | Observer selected |
| UK | Cefas Endeavour | Celtic Sea | Groundfish survey using 4m beam trawl | 01/04/2018 | 14/04/2019 | Berth TBC |
| Netherlands | Tridens | NW of Ireland | Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey | 11/03/2019 | 05/04/2019 | One berth available |
| Spain | Miguel Oliver | SW of Ireland | Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey | 13/03/2019 | 24/03/2019 | One berth available |
| Germany | Walther Herwig III | West of Ireland & Celtic Sea | Mackerel & Horse Mackerel Egg Survey | 21/03/2019 | 26/04/2019 | One berth available |
| Spain | Ramon Margalef | SW of Ireland | Blue Whiting Acoustic Survey | 25/03/2019 | 03/04/2019 | One berth available |
| Netherlands | Tridens | Western Channel & Celtic Sea | Mackerel & Horse Mackerel Egg Survey | 06/05/2019 | 24/05/2019 | One berth available |
| Germany | Maria S Merian | Atlantic | Oceanographic survey | 22/05/2019 | 26/05/2019 | N/A |
| Netherlands | Tridens | SW Ireland & Celtic Sea | Mackerel & Horse Mackerel Egg Survey | 03/06/2019 | 21/06/2019 | One berth available |
Updated 11th December 2018