Our work
Education
We offer training and courses for those interested in fish and fishing, marine biology, limnology, and aquatic ecology.
Research
We conduct research on aquatic ecosystems, fish, fishing, and fisheries management.
Environmental monitoring and assessment
How is the fish population along our coasts and in our seas, lakes, and watercourses doing? We track changes, explain them and show the way forward.
News and ongoing projects
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More hands in the water to give researchers better insight into Baltic Sea fish
Can more hands in the water provide better knowledge about fish health? Researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) are now testing a new method to collect data along the Swedish Baltic Sea coast. -
Vitamin Sea: Researchers collaborate globally to secure access to blue food
How will climate change affect people's access to nutritious food from the ocean, especially those living in coastal areas and in small island nations? This is the focus of the project Vitamin Sea, led by researchers from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). -
Healthy cod in the Åland Sea carry a chemical mystery
Researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) have made a remarkable discovery in cod from the Åland Sea. Compared to their relatives in the rest of the Baltic Sea, the Åland cod have extremely high levels of boron in their otoliths. But where it comes from remains a mystery.
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Lake food web responses to variation in land use practices across environmental gradients
This project will address how land-use change and forestry practises have altered, and may come to further alter, lake ecosystem diversity and function through inputs of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and nutrients along natural gradients in lake-biogeochemistry and catchment vegetation. -
Vitamin Sea: Identifying risks in the flow of nutrition from aquatic foods in vulnerable coastal and islands states in the face of a changing climate
In the Vitamin Sea-project we will investigate how climate change effect people's access to nutritious food from the ocean, especially those living in coastal areas and in small island nations. -
HotFish – Sustaining marine biodiversity under climate change
The HotFish project investigates the distribution and seascape connectivity of fish in the Swedish Baltic Sea to improve and expand the Swedish marine protected area network.
Open databases
Database for fish monitoring along the coast - KUL
Download catch data from coastal fish surveys. Here you will also find data from individual fish sampling from coastal sampling.
Database for fish monitoring in lakes - NORS
Download data from approximately 10,000 conducted fish surveys distributed across about 3,900 lakes.
Database for fish monitoring in rivers and streams - SERS
Download data from more than 81,000 electrofishing surveys carried out at around 22,000 electrofishing sites.