Since several years LimnoMar is involved in studies on sublethal effects of copper applying histological methods. These studies were performed in marine species like Littorina littorea and brackish water species like Theodoxus fluviatilis (s.a. publications research project CHANGE). The background of these studies is the input of copper by antifouling […]
Anja Thomsen
Mussels create in technical aquatic systems, which intake huge volumes of water from rivers and lakes. Fouling occurs in cooling systems of power plants, refineries, chemical parks and drinking water stations. Whereas in marine waters blue mussels attach firmly, in freshwater Zebra- and Quagga mussels introduced from the Ponto-Caspian area […]
The number and variety of biocide-free products and techniques is continuously increasing. This holds true for commercial shipping, leisure boats, aquaculture and offshore industry. The list of approved biocidal products is going to be published by the ECHA according to the EU-Biocidal Products Directive. As there is no official compendium […]
Endocrine active organotin compounds like TBTO, TBTCl and TPTC formerly used as antifouling agents are banned since 2008. Under the umbrella of OSPAR the ban is being controlled by monitoring the intersex stages in snails at the North Sea and the North Atlantic (OSPAR 2000, 2007). NLWKN is in charge […]
Since 2018 a project consortium composed of representatives of the Environment Department of Bremen, and bremenports, on cooperation with the Coast Guard of Lower Saxony, the German Federal Agency of Shipping, paint companies, the Alfred Wegener Polar Institute Bremerhaven, the shipping company Laeisz, Nordseetaucher, and LimnoMar perform the research project […]
LimnoMar offers on the background of comprehensive experience in diseases of aquatic organisms, histological studies. Invertebrates like molluscs and crustaceans are in the focus with regard to disturbance of the reproductive system after exposure to endocrine active substances in laboratory exposures or caught in natural waters.