Sufficient offspring for brown shrimp?

Background and Objective

Brown shrimp fishery is from the economic point of view the most important fishery in Germany. It gives direct as well as indirect employment for a number of people along the coast and has an impact on regional tourism. Monitoring brown shrimp stocks and the accompanying fauna from chartered and research vessels and the landings serves for the understanding of the ecosystem and population dynamics of brown shrimp in view of a sustainable and ecologically sound fishery in the region. Prediction models for landings and life cycle are intended to improve stabilising mechanisms for the fishery and processing. Results are contrarily to normal fisheries research activities not used by the CFP of the EU but available directly to local authorities, producers organisations and ICES, which established a working group (WGCRAN) to investigate basic biological information and modelling of brown shrimp on an international, European-wide level.

Preliminary Results

• ICES WGCRAN reports
• Prediction models
• Publications, e.g.:
  •  Hünerlage, Kim, Volker Siegel, and Reinhard Saborowski. "Reproduction and recruitment of the brown shrimp Crangon crangon in the inner German Bight (North Sea): An interannual study and critical reappraisal." Fisheries Oceanography 28.6 (2019): 708-722.
  • Siegel, V., Gröger, J., Neudecker, T., Damm, U., Jansen, S., 2005: Long-term variation in the abundance of the brown shrimp Crangon crangon (L.) population of the German Bight and possible causes for its interannual variability. Fisheries Oceanography 14: 1-16.

Links and Downloads

• ICES Working Group on Crangon Fisheries and Life History (WGCRAN)

Further projects of the Thünen Fisheries Research, which are funded by the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) of the European Union, can be found here under ‘EU Fisheries Projects’.