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Institute of Sea Fisheries (TI-SF)
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Institute of Sea Fisheries provides the scientific basis and evaluates the economic conditions to guide the sustainable use of natural marine resources. This institute prepares decision support for the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) with respect to the Common Fisheries Policy of the EU (CFP) and international marine conventions (i.a. NEAFC, NAFO, CCAMLR, OSPAR, IWC, ASCOBANS) of which Germany is a member. Through its scientific monitoring programs and research activities, the institute contributes to a general increase in knowledge about marine systems for the benefit of the international community.
Based on its research, the institute enunciates advice to the Federal Ministry (Departments 621 and 622) and the European Commission (STECF, other EU advisory boards). The institute?s scientific outcome also forms an important part of the German contribution to the annual advice for fisheries and marine ecosystems provided in collaboration with other European fisheries research institutions (ERA-NET) under the auspices of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). The institute takes part in international research projects funded by EU and other agencies in order to evaluate and resolve specific questions regarding the management of marine living resources and to further improve the scientific basis of its advice.
Activities
- Research
Parent institution
Coordinated projects
- A link between the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and Maritime Spatial Planning: spatio-temporal modelling of pressure-state relationships for spatial management in the southern North Sea
- Adjusted Hydrography Optimal Interpolation
- Analysis and evaluation of fish data from coastal areas of the North Sea
- Automated fish age reading and analysis of growth patterns using deep learning
- Baltc Sea and North Sea GLOBEC: trophic interactions between zooplancton and fishes allowing the effects of physical processes
- Changes in fish distribution and species composition as a result of climatic changes in the East Greenland Ecosystem: implications for fisheries and management
- Climate change and European aquatic RESources
- Climatic change and variability - case study in East Greenland waters
- Collaborative project BioTip: Spatial and temporal analysis of tipping points of the socioecological system of the southern North Sea. Subproject 1
- Collaborative project: Development of a mobile and a portable underwater fish observatory (UFO) and construction of a UFO-network for monitoring fish stocks through coupling with a stationary UFO. Subproject 1: Coordination
- Collaborative project: Development of an innovative non-invasive monitoring and evaluation process in the research of fishery (AutoMAT). Subproject 1: Development of a non-invasive, acoustic-optic underwater fish obsvervatory
- Cooperation in the North Sea Commission Fisheries Partnership
- Ecosystem Approach to making Space for Sustainable Aquaculture
- Ecosystem Approach to the management of fisheries and the marine environment in West African waters (AWA)
- EU project: Coral reefs in a changing world - ecosystemic services from coral reefs: public policy tools for decision making in New Caledonia and French Polynesia (BEST-CORAL)
- EU project: Quantification of climate change impacts on economic sectors in the Arctic
- 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
- EU project: Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors (VECTORS)
- Future of Coastal Fisheries in the North and Baltic Sea
- Hydroacoustic surveys of fish stocks to estimate stock sizes and allowable catch
- Impact of the use of offshore wind and other marine renewables on European fisheries
- Multiple Stressors on North Sea Life
- North Sea Observation and Assessment (NOAH)
- Oceanography & climate: Analyses of hydrographic data and model output as basis for studies on climate impacts on distribution and recruitment succes of commercially important fish stocks
- Oceanography & climate: Assessment of short-term climatic variations in the Labrador Sea (Correlation of Greenland cod (Gadus morhua) recruitment data and ocean/atmosphere environmental data)
- Oceanography & climate: Monitoring of physical oceanographic parameters for the assessment of climatic influences on fish stocks in the North Sea Atlantic and North Atlantic
- Optimised codends for an ecologically and economically sustainable brown shrimp fishery in the North Sea (CRANNET)
- Paradigm for novel dynamic oceanic resource assessments
- Quantification of discards and economic implications from a landing obligation for all TAC-regulated fish stocks based on two selected German North Sea fisheries (Stopp Discard)
- Shaping Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management
- Shelf and coastal systems: Investigations on fish assemblages in small defined areas in the North Sea to assess the anthropogenic influence on marine ecosystems (e.g. offshore windfarms).
- Stock assessment: Monitoring and biological investigations of Antarctic krill stocks and development of conservation measures under CCAMLR
- Strategic Use of Competitiveness towards Consolidating the Economic Sustainability of the European Seafood sector. Subproject 2
- Strengthening regional cooperation in the area of fisheries data collection
- Strengthening Regional cooperation in the area of fisheries data collection 2
- Structural Change in Coastal Fisheries
- Study on approaches to management for data-poor stocks in mixed fisheries
- Synthesizing knowledge for sustainable management of Crangon fisheries in the coastal North Sea and the National Park
- The impact of changes in biodiversity in North Sea food webs caused by environmental factors and human activities
- Towards a Joint Monitoring Programme for the North Sea and Celtic Sea (JMP NS/CS)
- Web services for support of growth and reproduction studies (WebGR)
Involved in research projects
- Analysis of the economic situation of the German fishing fleet ('National Programme for collection of fisheries data')
- Analysis of the economic situation of the German fishing fleet ('National Programme for collection of fisheries data')
- Collaborative project: Development of an innovative non-invasive monitoring and evaluation process in the research of fishery - subproject 1: Development of a hyperbaric flow channel to parameterize the effects of contaminants and diseases on the reproductive capacity of the European Eel
- Fishery Survey Technology: electrical beam trawl in the brown shrimp fishery
- Integrated chemical and biological monitoring as demanded by international conventions
- Policy advice: Evaluation of ITQ-management for the Western Baltic Sea
- Policy advice: FLOS: Project on reducing discards at sea and to test an alternative fisheries management approach: Fehmarn Landing Obligation Study
Contact
Institute of Sea Fisheries
(TI-SF)
Palmaille 9
22767 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Phone: 040 / 38905-177
Fax: 040 / 38905-263
Email: sf(@)thuenen.de