Institute of

Baltic Sea Fisheries

Secretariat

Katharina Wolf
Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries

Alter Hafen Süd 2
18069 Rostock
Phone: +49 381 66099 102
Fax: +49 381 66099 199
of@thuenen.de of-sekretariat@thuenen.de

Dr. Christopher Zimmermann

Dr. Christopher Zimmermann
Address
Alter Hafen Süd 2
18069 Rostock
Phone
+49 381 66099 101
Fax
+49 381 66099 199
E-Mail
christopher.zimmermann@thuenen.de

Fields of activity

  • Director of the Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries
  • German member of the Advisory Committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea  (ICES-ACOM), one of the two German ICES delegates (Council) since 2015
  • Scientific advisor to policy makers (regional, Federal and EU administrations and parliaments), retailers and industry, environmental NGOs
  • Initiator and project lead for „Fischbestände online“
  • Project lead for the German pilots on the Catch Quota Management and Electronic Monitoring
  • Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC-TAB, chair 2011-2016 and since 2021), London, member of the MSC Board of Trustees (2011-2017 and since 2021) (honorary)
  • Vice chairmen of the board of advisors of the Foundation of the German Maritime Museum (DMM) and member of the scientific advisory board of the German Fisher’s Federation (DFV)

Scientific background

since 2013: Director of the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries

2005-2013: Deputy director of the Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (until 2008 part of the Federal Research Centre for Fisheries), Rostock. Teaching at Rostock and Hamburg Universities, and within ICES training courses. Reviewer for scientific journals, international projects and national and international project proposal. Member of the EU-„Marine Observation and Data Expert Group“ (MODEG) 2008-2015, member of many ICES expert groups, chair of some, member of various STECF Expert groups

1997-2005: Scientist at the Sea Fisheries Institute, Fed. Res. Centre for Fisheries, Hamburg, since 2002 head of the pelagics department, inter alia responsible for acoustic surveys and stock assessment of small pelagic fish, many sea-going surveys to the North Sea, since 2002 German member of ICES ACFM

1997: Short-term lectureship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at Univ. Bung Hatta, Padang/Indonesia

1996-1997: various contracts in the framework of different soft money funded projects at the Institute for Polar Ecology, participation in teaching

1993-1996: PhD student at Kiel University, Institute of Polar Ecology (comparative ecophysiology of polar fish, fisheries biology), 2-3 months research trips to the Arctic (Svalbard) and the Antarctic (McMurdo) 1996: PhD (Dr. rer. nat) at Univ. Kiel, fisheries biology

1993: 2 months Internship at a coral reef protection project in Padang/Indonesia

1993: Diploma (Dipl.-Biol.) at Kiel University, Institute of Polar Ecology (zoogeography of the high-Antarctic fish fauna)

1986-1991: Studies of marine biology, zoology, limnology and physical oceanography at Kiel University, sea-going surveys to the Baltic Sea and the Antarctic

Publications (peer reviewed)

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  1. Polte P, Gröhsler T, Kotterba P, Nordheim L von, Moll D, Santos J, Rodriguez-Tress P, Zablotski Y, Zimmermann C (2021) Reduced reproductive success of Western Baltic herring (Clupea harengus) as a response to warming winters. Front Mar Sci 8:589242, DOI:10.3389/fmars.2021.589242
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 3767 kb
  2. Helmond ATM van, Mortensen LO, Plet-Hansen KS, Ulrich C, Needle CL, Oesterwind D, Kindt-Larsen L, Catchpole T, Mangi S, Zimmermann C, Olesen HJ, Bailey N, Bergsson H, Dalskov J, Elson J, Hosken M, Peterson L, McElderry H, Ruiz J, Pierre JP, et al (2020) Electronic monitoring in fisheries: Lessons from global experiences and future opportunities. Fish Fisheries 21(1):162-189, DOI:10.1111/faf.12425
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 1762 kb
  3. Eero M, Hinrichsen HH, Hjelm J, Huwer B, Hüssy K, Köster F-W, Margonski P, Plikshs M, Storr-Paulsen M, Zimmermann C (2019) Designing spawning closures can be complicated: Experience from cod in the Baltic Sea. Ocean Coastal Manag 169:129-136, DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.12.018
  4. Dodson JJ, Daigle G, Hammer C, Polte P, Kotterba P, Winkler G, Zimmermann C (2019) Environmental determinants of larval herring (Clupea harengus) abundance and distribution in the western Baltic Sea. Limnol Oceanogr 64(1):317-329, DOI:10.1002/lno.11042
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 1736 kb
  5. Belschner T, Ferretti J, Strehlow HV, Kraak SBM, Döring R, Kraus G, Kempf A, Zimmermann C (2019) Evaluating fisheries systems: A comprehensive analytical framework and its application to the EU’s common fisheries policy. Fish Fisheries 20(1):97-109, DOI:10.1111/faf.12325
  6. Zimmermann C, Hammer C (2017) Zum Beispiel Kabeljau und Hering : Fischerei, Überfischung und Fischereimanagement im Nordatlantik. In: Hempel G, Bischof K, Hagen W (eds) Faszination Meeresforschung : ein ökologisches Lesebuch. 2. Aufl. Berlin: Springer, pp 427-441, DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-49741-2_39
  7. Eero M, Hjelm J, Behrens JW, Buchmann K, Cardinale M, Casini M, Gasyukov P, Holmgren N, Horbowy J, Hüssy K, Kirkegaard E, Kornilovs G, Krumme U, Köster F-W, Oeberst R, Plikshs M, Radtke K, Raid T, Schmidt JO, Zimmermann C, et al (2015) Food for thought : Eastern Baltic cod in distress: biological changes and challenges for stock assessment. ICES J Mar Sci 72(8):2180-2186, DOI:10.1093/icesjms/fsv109
  8. Bauer RK, Gräwe U, Stepputtis D, Zimmermann C, Hammer C (2014) Identifying the location and importance of spawning sites of Western Baltic herring using a particle backtracking model. ICES J Mar Sci 71(3):499-509, doi:10.1093/icesjms/fst163
  9. Dorrien C von, Hammer C, Zimmermann C, Stepputtis D, Stuermer IW, Kotterba P, Polte P (2013) A review on herring Clupea harengus (Actinopterygii: Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) recruitment and early life stage ecology in the Western Baltic Sea. Acta Ichth Piscat 43(3):169-182, doi:10.3750/AIP2013.43.3.01
  10. Agnew DJ, Gutierrez NL, Stern-Pirlot A, Smith AD, Zimmermann C, Sainsbury K (2013) Rebuttal to Froese and Proelss "Evaluation and legal assessment of certified seafood". Mar Policy 38:551-553, DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2012.07.002

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Publications (all)

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  1. Polte P, Gröhsler T, Kotterba P, Nordheim L von, Moll D, Santos J, Rodriguez-Tress P, Zablotski Y, Zimmermann C (2021) Reduced reproductive success of Western Baltic herring (Clupea harengus) as a response to warming winters. Front Mar Sci 8:589242, DOI:10.3389/fmars.2021.589242
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 3767 kb
  2. Isermeyer F, Nieberg H, Banse M, Bolte A, Christoph-Schulz IB, Dauber J, Witte T de, Dehler M, Döring R, Elsasser P, Fock HO, Focken U, Freund F, Goti L, Heidecke C, Kempf A, Koch G, Kraus G, Krause A, Kroiher F, Lasner T, Lüdtke J, Olbrich A, Osterburg B, Pelikan J, Probst WN, Rahmann G, Reiser S, Rock J, Röder N, Rüter S, Sanders J, Stelzenmüller V, Zimmermann C (2020) Auswirkungen aktueller Politikstrategien (Green Deal, Farm-to-Fork, Biodiversitätsstrategie 2030; Aktionsprogramm Insektenschutz) auf Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie Fischerei. Braunschweig: Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut, 102 p, Thünen Working Paper 156, DOI:10.3220/WP1600775202000
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 909 kb
  3. Zimmermann C (2020) Das Narrativ von den leergefischten Meeren. In: Kronfeld-Goharani U, Mondré A, Werner FJ (eds) Der Mensch und das Meer : Wie Erzählungen unseren Umgang mit dem Ozean beeinflussen. 1. Aufl. Kiel; Hamburg: Wachholtz, pp 127-139
  4. Helmond ATM van, Mortensen LO, Plet-Hansen KS, Ulrich C, Needle CL, Oesterwind D, Kindt-Larsen L, Catchpole T, Mangi S, Zimmermann C, Olesen HJ, Bailey N, Bergsson H, Dalskov J, Elson J, Hosken M, Peterson L, McElderry H, Ruiz J, Pierre JP, et al (2020) Electronic monitoring in fisheries: Lessons from global experiences and future opportunities. Fish Fisheries 21(1):162-189, DOI:10.1111/faf.12425
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 1762 kb
  5. Zimmermann C (2020) Nachhaltigkeitssiegel sind auch nur Verbrauchertäuschung? Das Meeresfisch-Beispiel in DAS GESCHÄFT MIT DEM FISCHSIEGEL. DIE DUNKLE SEITE DES MSC. Thünen Rep 70:87-100
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 3136 kb
  6. Stepputtis D, Santos J, Zimmermann C (2020) Technical approaches to avoid cod catches in Baltic Sea trawl fisheries : A report for the BALTFISH high level group. Rostock: Thünen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, 37 p
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 9258 kb
  7. Zimmermann C (2020) Umweltdokumentarfilme aus Sicht der Naturwissenschaften. Thünen Rep 70:25-29
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 1091 kb
  8. Eero M, Hinrichsen HH, Hjelm J, Huwer B, Hüssy K, Köster F-W, Margonski P, Plikshs M, Storr-Paulsen M, Zimmermann C (2019) Designing spawning closures can be complicated: Experience from cod in the Baltic Sea. Ocean Coastal Manag 169:129-136, DOI:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.12.018
  9. Dodson JJ, Daigle G, Hammer C, Polte P, Kotterba P, Winkler G, Zimmermann C (2019) Environmental determinants of larval herring (Clupea harengus) abundance and distribution in the western Baltic Sea. Limnol Oceanogr 64(1):317-329, DOI:10.1002/lno.11042
    pdf document (limited accessibility) 1736 kb
  10. Belschner T, Ferretti J, Strehlow HV, Kraak SBM, Döring R, Kraus G, Kempf A, Zimmermann C (2019) Evaluating fisheries systems: A comprehensive analytical framework and its application to the EU’s common fisheries policy. Fish Fisheries 20(1):97-109, DOI:10.1111/faf.12325

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