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A long winter is raising hopes for herring stocks in the western Baltic Sea: this year’s Rügen herring larval survey currently shows a high level of spawning activity, but very few larvae.

A bongo net for catching fish plankton, ready for use on a research vessel.

Living organisms leave traces of DNA in the environment in the form of tiny cellular remnants. This makes it possible to detect animals and plants without actually seeing them. In order to pool their expertise in working with eDNA more effectively in future, Thünen staff have now set up a new…

A component of a pipetting robot used for analysis.

The German National Commission for UNESCO has designated small-scale coastal fishing in the Baltic Sea and the Bodden waters of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as intangible cultural heritage. This recognition honours traditional craftsmanship and the way it helps to shape local identity.

The Information and Coordination Centre for Fisheries Transformation (IKTF) is a new institution for fisheries in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. On behalf of the German government, the IKTF supports fishermen and fisherwomen in the transition to a sustainable sector. It will celebrate its opening in…

Several brown shrimp boats are lined up next to each other in a harbour.

The workshop of the Innovation Programme for Brown Shrimp Fisheries (IPK) – a project initiated by the Shrimp Fishing Advisory Council (Krabbenfischerbeirat) and the Thünen Institute with the aim of improving the sustainability of commercial brown shrimp fishing – has gone international!

Workshop participants sit in front of the large window and observe a beam trawl model in the water.

Anchovies are appearing more and more frequently in the Kattegat and are expanding deeper into the western Baltic Sea. A recent master's thesis has now systematically examined this development for the first time using long-term data series.

This year's annual reception focused on the question ‘What kind of future do we want to live in?’ The participating institutes took the opportunity to present their ideas and projects in short presentations.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Minister for Climate Protection and Fisheries, Till Backhaus, visited Rostock yesterday to learn about the status of Baltic Sea fish stocks and the future of coastal fisheries.

Till Backhaus and Christopher Zimmermann in conversation at the Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries

Daniel Oesterwind has become the first German scientist to be elected president of the Cephalopod International Advisory Council (CIAC). The cephalopod expert from the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries will head the council until 2028.

A large screen displaying: President of CIAC Daniel Oesterwind. Two men are standing next to a lectern.

A recent study by the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries provides the first evidence that Atlantic herring also exhibit a so-called spawning site fidelity. This means that most herring in the western Baltic Sea return to their birthplaces, such as the Greifswalder Bodden, to spawn. This…