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There are large quantities of conventional ammunition under water off German coasts that were dumped there after the Second World War. Since then, the ammunition has been rusting on the seabed and releasing pollutants. Thünen researchers investigated whether fish living there were affected.

The results of the project "BIOEELS" - brief and understandable.

Our Indian colleague Dr. Parasuraman Aiya Subramani is a guest at the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology on a Humboldt Fellowship. His area of expertise is the behavior of fish.

Results from the project CLEAN FISH - brief and understandable.

New publication on the use of environmental DNA for the estimation of cod stocks in the North and Baltic Seas.

Lecture on dumped munition at Lloyd Gymnasium in Bremerhaven.

Monitoring data from Thünen Institute, concerning contaminants in fish an marine litter at the seafloor contribute to environmental assessment of the Baltic Sea.

Results from the research project COFISHMAP

In a newly published study researchers report increasing mercury concentrations in dab, while trends in sediment decrase. What is the cause? The authors assume an influence of climate change.

Stefan Reiser, Erick Cantu Perez, Alexandra Meier