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How does oxygen make fish larvae glow? How can hungry scavenger cells protect against diseases? And why does dirt in the water help fish grow better? Researchers utilize natural substances to breed sustainable and healthy food fish.

IGB has provided feedback on the government draft of the National Water Strategy, emphasising, among other things, the relevance of aquatic biodiversity and the large practical implementation deficit in water management.

Missing or vague definitions and standards make it difficult to plan and evaluate aquaponic systems properly. Researchers from IGB have now tightened up the definitions and created a calculation model for resource use.

The “Zeitschrift für Fischerei” (or “FischZeit” for short) is the first peer-reviewed, German-language journal for fisheries research that brings together knowledge on all aspects of commercial and recreational fisheries, aquaculture, stock management, and fish conservation in inland, coastal and marine ecosystems.

Only recently, colleagues managed to sequence the genome of the sturgeon. Our doctoral student Christin Höhne has now developed an extensive overview of the immune system of sturgeon.

Velvet disease is a dreaded ailment. This infection is caused by dinoflagellates of the genera Amyloodinium and Piscinoodinium, and affects freshwater and marine ornamental and food fish. In her PhD thesis, Thora Lieke combined the risks and benefits of current treatment options and new approaches.

The new IGB Policy Brief highlights opportunities and challenges. Our researchers recommend a fundamental debate in politics and society.

Heiner Kuhl has described the genome of four mandarin fish species and thus also identified genes for cannibalistic eating behaviour.