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Insights into the genetic diversity of tuna support the sustainable management of the stocks.

Picture of four blue fishes

The Baltic Sea is the world leader in radioactive Cs-137 contamination in fish.

Schiffsbug auf dem Meer

Various squid species are found in the North Sea—some of which only became established there due to climate change. A new study has examined how they integrate into the existing ecosystem and what they eat by analyzing their fatty acids.


An interdisciplinary research team demonstrated in their new study that harmful phthalates and endocrine disruptors are released from common soft plastic baits

Mehrere Angelköder in einer Hand präsentiert

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.

Kopf eines Plattfisches

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

Fish market at a beach in Tanzania

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.

Wissenschaftler bei der Arbeit im Labor

Results from the project CLEAN FISH - brief and understandable.

Lab scene: Hand holding a Petri dish

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.

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