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Within a comparative study on herring growth hormones in populations of the Bothnian Sea and the Western Baltic, Finnish guest researchers of the University of Turku and scientists of the Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries took blood samples of herring from Strelasund (Western Pommerania).

Thünen PhD student Isabella Kratzer has developed a set net that is potentially visible to harbour porpoises and could thus protect them from entanglement - Public colloquium on 28 January 2021

Warming, acidification, eutrophication, and the loss of oxygen — these processes are occurring in the Baltic Sea at a much faster pace than in other regions. In the international journal Science Advances, an international team of researchers on participation of the Thuenen Institute of Baltic Sea…

The Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries joined this year’s international Otolith Symposium in Taiwan and presented current research results on the Baltic Sea cod in three oral presentations and one scientific poster. Huge interest aroused from the projects on stock discrimination and the validation of…

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…