The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

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Last Update: 2024/06/19

Baseline North Sea herring
Fisheries
Baseline study of heavy metals and POPs in North Sea herring (Clupea harengus)
National Programme
National
Arne Duinker
adu@nifes.no
NIFES - National Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (Norway)
NA - Not available (Not available), 
2009
2012
€ 604,492
NA
North Sea Herring (Clupea harengus) is a large stock of the same fish species as Norwegian Spring Spawning Herring but are geographically placed further south in the North Sea. In this baseline study of this stock 1000, fish from 40 stations was captured by Institute of Marine Research, Wessel in the whole fishing area. They were measure for heavy metals (Hg, Cd, Pb and As) and also for PCBs, dioxins and dioxinlike PCBs and brominated flame retardants. For metals the values were low and not exceeding the EU limits. The same was the cast for POPs in the main North Sea area. Some fish captured close to the county of Telemark, with a known history of dioxin emissions showed however values exceeded EU limits for dioxins plus dioxinlike PCBs. This warrants further monitoring. (1) Provide baseline data on major contaminants in North Sea Herring throughout its distribution area and covering all seasons; (2) Explore the relationship between contaminants and weight, age, lipid content, gender and gonad maturation.
Impacts; Toxic substances; Herring; Fish biology; Food safety; Fish;
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
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