Projects

The BALANCE project combines a “mark-recapture” study approach and the use of acoustic telemetry in order to obtain a robust quantification of the silver eel escapement numbers in the River Ems. The results of this empirical estimation will be compared to the predictions of the German model-in-use to project silver eel escapement rates.

Together with Moroccan partners we investigate the pollution of fishes from Moroccan coastal waters.

The Baltic Sea and its tributaries are an important distribution area of ​​the European eel. The Danish Belt-Sea with their three narrow straits Little Belt, Great Belt and Öresund provides a geographical bottleneck, which all Baltic Sea eels have to pass during their spawning migration into the western Atlantic. This geographic situation offers ideal conditions for studying the migration of silver eels from the Baltic Sea.

There are several reasons why aquaculture in Europe is only growing slowly. One reason is the low economic efficiency of several production system and an eco-intensification could improve it.

Marine dumped munition is a global problem. In German waters of the North and Baltic Sea about 1.6 mio t of munition were dumped after World war two. The munitions shells are corroding and environmentally toxic substances are released to the environment. The CONMAR project consortium will investigate in more detail locations and conditions of marine dumped munition in German waters, as well as their possible impact on the environment. The aim of CONMAR is to develop strategies for future treatment of marine dumped munitions. CONMAR-Fish investigates potential impacts of marine dumped munition on fish.