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The expansion of offshore wind farms in the North Sea is leading to the loss of traditional fishing grounds. At the same time, new habitats are emerging, such as for brown crabs and lobster, which are settling at the base of the turbines. Researchers at the Thünen Institute are investigating how…

Ein Taschenkrebs liegt auf einer glatten Oberfläche.

The Information and Coordination Centre for Fisheries Transformation (IKTF) is a new institution for fisheries in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. On behalf of the German government, the IKTF supports fishermen and fisherwomen in the transition to a sustainable sector. It will celebrate its opening in…

Several brown shrimp boats are lined up next to each other in a harbour.

Extreme events change the ecology of oceans abruptly: For example, a marine heat wave in 2003 had such strong effects on species composition and trophic interactions of the subpolar North Atlantic that these impacts last until today. Researchers led by the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in…

At the foot of the offshore wind farms in the German Bight, newly composed fish communities are forming. These differ depending on the location and wind farm. This is shown by current studies by the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in a wind farm in the southern German Bight.

An underwater picture with a striped fish and an overgrown tube.

In a recent study by the EU's Horizon Europe project MarinePlan, which is coordinated by the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, the scientists emphasise that systematic conservation planning (SCP) in particular can stop the loss of biodiversity.