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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 Greifswald Bay, to spawn. This finding is…

An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated in their new study that harmful phthalates and endocrine disruptors are released from common soft plastic baits

Various rubbery fishing lures that look like fish lie on the palm of one hand.

The eastern Baltic cod stock is in crisis since years. Despite historically low fishing pressure, it is not recovering. A conclusive explanation for this is still lacking. Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde and the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries now…