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The Marine Stewardship Council, the world's leading sustainability standard for wild-caught fish, celebrates it' s 20th anniversary. The Berlin office has invited to a party with panel discussion in the "Spreespeicher" in Berlin.

The Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries presented the website "Fischbestände Online" at the ANUGA (Trade Fair for Food and Beverages) in Cologne.

A delegation of the European parliament’s PECH committee started its tour through Mecklenburg-Western Pommerania at the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries today and was informed about recent developments in fisheries science.

The series goes on: the prize of the Baltic Sea research foundation (donated for the first time) was this year awarded to Dr. Paul Kotterba from the Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries for his dissertation on herring ecology in coastal waters of the Baltic Sea.

Repeated success: Dr. Paul Kotterba from the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries again received an award at an international conference, this time the "best presentation award".

Gill nets are the most important fishing gear for the German small scale fishery. This method is considered highly selective with respect to the target species, but unwanted bycatch of seabirds and marine mammals can be a serious environmental problem at times. An inter-disciplinary project funded…

Rostock University promotes cooperation between Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries and the Institute of Informatics.

Fishing is the most dangerous civil occupation, with the highes rates of injuries and fatalities outside of military conflicts. While we are well aware of this fact, even Thünen personell is sometimes stuck by accidents. Quick help is essential in these cases!

Dr Paul Kotterba, Postdoc at the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, has received the Best Poster Award during the prestigeous 51st European Marine Biology Symposium on Rhodos, Greece.

Dr Richard Spinrad, Chief Scientist of the U.S. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), visited Warnemunde today for an exchange of ideas with IOW, BSH and Thünen OF.