Brest Centre

The largest Ifremer centre is that of Brest. About 1000 people work there, in various fields:

  • Monitoring, use and enhancement of coastal seas
  • Monitoring and optimising aquaculture resource
  • Fishery resources, sustainable exploitation and enhancement
  • Exploration, knowledge and exploitation of ocean floors and their biodiversity
  • Circulation and marine ecosystems mechanisms, trends and forecasting
  • Large facilities serving ocean research

It houses laboratories belonging to other research organizations such as IRD, BRGM, IPEV, AFSSA,  which carry out research on the sea, sometimes alongside Ifremer.


Access to the Brest centre web site
(in French)
 

Ifremer
Technopole de Brest-Iroise
BP 70
29280 PLOUZANE

tel 33 (0)2 98 22 40 40
fax 33 (0)2 98 22 45 45