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Integrated chemical and biological monitoring as demanded by international conventions
Project
Project code: TI-FI-08-PID1457
Contract period: 01.01.2001
- 31.12.2020
Purpose of research: Inventory & Assessment
Measuring one single contaminant, doesn't answer the question if the fish is healthy. Are other contaminats present too? Are deleterious effects of the contaminants detectable or might the fish be ill? All these aspects have to be looked at together - in an integrated way. Integrated monitoring and the ecosysteme approach in environmental assesment are the core topics of the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (EU MSFD). Integrated assessment stands for a joint view on single indicators e.g. contaminants and their effects in fish and fish diseases. The aim is to evaluate the 'ecosysteme health' or the 'good environmental status' to identify regions under pressure. With our research vessel Walther Herwig III, we sample and investigate fish directly on board. Further on we collect samples for chemical and biological investigations in our research laboratories. We develop indicators, criteria and startegies for environmental assessment. The Thünen Institure of Fisheries Ecology is active in data collection leated to EU MSFD descriptor 8. These data comprise contaminants (organic contaminants, metabolites, heavy metals and radionuclides), as well as fish diseases and more biological effects. The complete List of German MSFD indicators linked to the contribution of the Thünen Institute can be found here. Our monitoring results were collected in a Thünen database and were also made available in national and internationale databeses for an European environmental assessment as demanded by EU MSFD.
Section overview
Subjects
- Animal health
- Marine fisheries
- Computer science