Integrated chemical and biological monitoring
Project
Integrated chemical and biological monitoring as demanded by international conventions
Measuring one single contaminant, doesn't answer the question if the fish is healthy. Are other contaminats present too? Are deleterious effects of the contaminants detectable or might the fish be ill? All these aspects have to be looked at together - in an integrated way.
Background and Objective
Integrated monitoring and the ecosysteme approach in environmental assesment are the core topics of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (EU MSFD). Integrated assessment stands for a joint view on single indicators e.g. contaminants and their effects in fish and fish diseases. The aim is to evaluate the "ecosysteme health" or the "good environmental status" to identify regions under pressure.
Approach
With our research vessel Walther Herwig III, we sample and investigate fish directly on board. Further on we collect samples for chemical and biological investigations in our research laboratories. We develop indicators, criteria and startegies for environmental assessment.
Data and Methods
The Thünen Institure of Fisheries Ecology is active in data collection leated to EU MSFD descriptor 8. These data comprise contaminants (organic contaminants, metabolites, heavy metals and radionuclides), as well as fish diseases and more biological effects.
The complete List of German MSFD indicators linked to the contribution of the Thünen Institute can be found here.
Our monitoring results were collected in a Thünen database and were also made available in national and internationale databeses for an European environmental assessment as demanded by EU MSFD.
Preliminary Results
The results are present in numerous scientific publications as well as in international reports.
Thünen-Contact
Involved Thünen-Partners
- Aust, Marc-Oliver Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Bahl, Horst Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Diekmann, Rabea Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Dorrien, von, Christian Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries
- Haarich, Michael Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Lang, Thomas Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Nogueira, Pedro Institute of Fisheries Ecology
- Probst, Wolfgang Institute of Sea Fisheries
Duration
Permanent task 1.2001 - 12.2020
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ongoing
Publications
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- Wosniok W, Lang T (2009) Annex 7: Progress made in the modification of the Fish Disease Index (FDI) and the assessment of the ICES fish disease (update of OSPAR request 13/2008). In: Report of the Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms. Copenhagen: ICES, pp 59-76
- Olsman H, Engwall M, Kammann U, Klempt M, Otte J, van Bavel B, Hollert H (2007) Relative differences in aryl hydrocarbon receptor-mediatedresponse for eighteen polybrominated and mixed halogenated dibenzo-p-dioxins and -furansin cell lines from four different species. Environ Toxicol Chem 26(11):2448-2454
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