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The fisheries research vessel Walther Herwig III is currently sailing the North Sea and Baltic Sea to investigate radioactive substances, heavy metals, and organic pollutants, as well as their effects on biological systems. Find more in our sea blog.

The ship photographed from the side. It is painted blue (hull), orange (superstructure), and white (bridge).

New study sheds light on metal and temperature effects on oyster larvae.

How does the regionalization of marine aquaculture influences sustainability?

Netzkäfige für die Lachszucht schwimmen im Wasser

3,355 - that is the number of barrels of nuclear waste found and mapped by an international research team during a four-week expedition to the Iberian deep sea. Today, Friday morning, July 11, the research vessel L'Atalante arrived back in Brest, France.

A barrel lies on a sandy seabed and is overgrown with marine life.

Elin Wefer at the 5th Seminar Days of the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology

Students from the WASCAL program gathered in Bremerhaven to discuss the sustainable use of aquatic resources – building a bridge between West Africa and Northern Germany.

Here we go: Construction of the new research vessel WALTHER HERWIG has started at the Lithuanian shipyard in Klaipeda. The keel laying marks the start of the practical construction phase of the replacement project for one of the world's most modern and efficient vessels for German fisheries and…