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Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science (IHF)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science at the University of Hamburg conducts interdisciplinary research in all fields of marine science with a focus of understanding the functioning of marine ecosystems under different pressures, e.g. climate variability and change as well as fisheries. Regionally the work of the institute is focused on the North and Baltic Seas with additonal studies in the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean Sea and the Benguela Upwelling System. The institute is composed of two core research groups (Biological Oceanography, Fisheries Science) which together cover all trophic levels of a marine ecosystem with overlaps in the zooplankton and fish early-life history stages (see schematic). The broad and interdisciplinary work of the institute allows a holistic understanding of marine ecosystem structure and functioning. The general scientific approach of the institute is to combine a wide range of methods including laboratory experiments and field process studies to examine key processes affecting marine ecosystem dynamics. These process studies provide the basis for different modelling approaches which are conducted within the institute or in cooperation with several partner institutions. Scientists of the institute are involved in several national and international research projects on basic marine research as well as on the incorporation of scientific results into ecosystem management (see project-pages). Locally the institute is a part of the Department of Biology within the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences of the University of Hamburg. The institute is further attached to the Centre for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, a cooperation between several institutes of the University of Hamburg and the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, which conduct research on the earth system and its reaction to the effects of human activity. The holistic approach of the institute and the broad national and international partnership allows significant contributions to developing concepts for an Ecosystem Approach to Management of the marine environment, and especially an Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- Collaborative project: Development of an innovative non-invasive monitoring and evaluation process in the research of fishery - subproject 7
- Development and parameterization of a population model to analyse the situation of the fishing Crangon crangon
- Overcoming the dificulties of European eel reproduction. Optimization of artificial maturation, eel husbandry and breeding conditions. Production of gelatinous plankton as nutrition basis. Breeding and feeding experiments - subproject 2
Involved in research projects
- Adaptation of the Western Baltic Coastal Fishery to Climate Change
- Baltc Sea and North Sea GLOBEC: trophic interactions between zooplancton and fishes allowing the effects of physical processes
- BONUS Project: INSPIRE -INtegrating SPatIal pRocesses into Ecosystem models for sustainable utilization of fish resources
- EU project: Study on stomach content of fish to support the assessment of good environmental status of marine food webs and the prediction of MSY after stock restoration
- Optimised codends for an ecologically and economically sustainable brown shrimp fishery in the North Sea (CRANNET)
- Real-case exploration of the RTI tariff-based fisheries-management approach for the mixed groundfish trawl fishery in the western Baltic Sea
Contact
Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Science
(IHF)
Olbersweg 24
D-22767 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Phone: +49-40-42838
