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Michael Kriegl


Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries


until July 31st, 2021

Fields of Activity

MGF-Ostsee project: “DAM Pilot Mission - Protected areas in the Baltic Sea: Effects of the exclusion of mobile bottom-contacting fishing activities in marine protected areas”

Research Interests

  • Sustainable fisheries management
  • Marine protected areas
  • Fisheries co-management
  • Small-scale fisheries
  • Social-ecological systems

Scientific background

April 2020 - July 2021: Scientist in the MGF-Ostsee project “DAM Pilot Mission - Protected areas in the Baltic Sea: Effects of the exclusion of mobile bottom-contacting fishing activities in marine protected areas”

2020: Guest researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Bremen

2019: Teacher for Marine Biology at the High Seas High School, Atlantic Ocean

2016 - 2018: International Master of Science in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (EMBC+) at the University of Bremen, Sorbonne Université and Ghent University, Master thesis: Sustainable artisanal fisheries under risk: Is the minimum legal size regulation working for the Chilean abalone Concholepas concholepas?

2017: Research assistant at the Alfred-Wegener-Institute (AWI), R/V Polarstern cruise, Arctic ocean

2012 - 2016: Bachelor of Science in Ecology, University of Vienna

2012 - 2015: Bachelor of Science in Earth Sciences, University of Vienna

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