Are herring kids afraid in the dark?

Looking in the egg-incubators since the day we put them into the mesocosms, you could see pairs of eyes staring back at you. Then suddenly it got less and less, fortunately not unexpected, since they were hatching just as calculated by the temperature they experienced over time. Signs for first hatching could already be seen […]

Odd parental feelings for several thousand herring eggs

To get a better impression how fishes will do under future conditions we decided to introduce fish larvae to the mesocosms. With that we will be able not only to record the interaction of several trophic stages under high CO2 conditions but also record the development of critical life stages such as the vulnerable larval […]