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Institute of

FI Fisheries Ecology

Marine environment

Our marine environment is impacted in many ways by human activities. One of our core tasks is to assess the effects of environmental pollution on fish as a compartment of the marine environment and as an important natural resource. To this end, we investigate which potential pollutants are taken up by fish in which concentrations, how these substances accumulate in the fish, how they affect the fish and which degradation products are formed in the organism, always with a view to potential hazards for consumers. In addition to various inorganic and organic pollutants, the risk assessment of dumped munitions is one of our main research areas.

Ongoing projects

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CONMAR FISH - Marine dumped munition and fish

Marine dumped munition is a global problem. In German waters of the North and Baltic Sea about 1.6 mio t of munition were dumped after World war two. The munitions shells are corroding and environmentally toxic substances are released to the ...

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MESMO - Modellierung der Effekte radioaktiver Stoffe auf marine Organismen

Marine dumped munition is a global problem. In German waters of the North and Baltic Sea about 1.6 mio t of munition were dumped after World war two. The munitions shells are corroding and environmentally toxic substances are released to the ...

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ElbeXtreme-Fish - Impact of extreme weather events on fish in the Elbe estuary

Extreme clima events happens more often. What this means to the coastal ecosysteme of the river Elbe and to the fish living there is investigated.

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Publications

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    Kammann UKR, Scharsack JP (2025) Kontamination durch versenkte Munition: TNT-Metaboliten in Fischen aus Nord- und Ostsee. Mitt Umweltchem Ökotox 31(1):8-11

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069588.pdf

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    Kammann UKR (2025) PAH-Metaboliten in Fischen aus der Nord- und Ostsee (2023) [Datenpublikation] [online]. 1 XLSX-Datei. Göttingen: OpenAgrar, zu finden in <https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00104609> [zitiert am 25.02.2025], DOI:10.3220/DATA20250127095929-0

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    Kammann UKR (2025) Per- und Polyfluoralkylchemikalien (PFAS) in Fischen aus der Nord- und Ostsee (2023) [Datenpublikation] [online]. 1 XLSX-Datei. Göttingen: OpenAgrar, zu finden in <https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00104610> [zitiert am 25.02.2025], DOI:10.3220/DATA20250127102327-0

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    Kammann UKR, Schmidt N, Lemaitre A (2025) PFAS FISCH - per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fish from German coastal areas. Bremerhaven: Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, 2 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2025/08a, DOI:10.3220/PB1738919100000

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069528.pdf

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    Kammann UKR, Schmidt N, Lemaitre A (2025) PFAS FISCH - Per- und Polyfluoralkylchemikalien (PFAS) in Fischen aus deutschen Küstengebieten. Bremerhaven: Thünen-Institut für Fischereiökologie, 2 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2025/08, 10.3220/PB1738919029000

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069527.pdf

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    Kammann UKR, Töpker V, Scharsack JP (2025) Tracking explosive contaminants from dumped munition in the western Baltic Sea via urine and bile analysis of three flatfish species. Environ Sci Europe 37:32, DOI:10.1186/s12302-025-01074-0

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069590.pdf

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    Kammann UKR, Töpker V, Scharsack JP (2025) Tracking explosive contaminants from dumped munition in the Western Baltic Sea via urine and bile analysis of three flatfish species [Datenpublikation] [online]. 1 XLSX file. Göttingen: OpenAgrar, zu finden in <https://www.openagrar.de/receive/openagrar_mods_00100741> [zitiert am 06.11.2024], DOI:10.3220/DATA20241022124456-0

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    Axen C, Cooper A, Paley R, Bao M, Bignell J, Carnegie R, Cheslett D, Cipriani P, Declercq A, Eriksson-Kallio AM, Gagné N, Garseth A-H, Giulietti L, Grade A, Haenen O, Kristmundsson Á, Levsen A, Madsen L, Mortensen S, Scharsack JP, et al (2025) Working Group on Pathology and Diseases of Marine Organisms (WGPDMO; outputs from 2024 meeting). Copenhagen: ICES, 27 p, ICES Sci Rep 7(17), DOI:10.17895/ices.pub.28343924

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn069516.pdf

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    Pham MK, Aust M-O, Bartocci J, Blinova O, Carvalho FP, Chamizo E, Cook M, Degering D, Fujak M, Gascó C, Gurriarán R, Jobbágy V, Herrmann J, Hult M, Ilchmann C, La Rosa J, Laubenstein M, Lee S-H, Levy I, Mas JL, et al (2024) A new certified reference material IAEA-465 for radionuclides in Baltic Sea sediment. J Environ Radioact 278:107499, DOI:10.1016/j.jenvrad.2024.107499

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    Hanel R, Gaspare L, Mwakosya C, Kanyairitha C, Kaijage LL, Kammann UKR, Wysujack K (2024) Assessing the biodiversity of eels of Tanzania - Promoting sustainable fisheries through environmental monitoring and capacity building (BIOEELS). Bremerhaven: Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology, 2 p, Project Brief Thünen Inst 2024/02a, DOI:10.3220/PB1705398344000

    https://literatur.thuenen.de/digbib_extern/dn067508.pdf

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