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Coastal waters are darkening, with drastic consequences for marine life and the fishing industry. We explore what’s causing our once clear coastal waters to go murky – and how to reverse it.
Interviewees:
Claas Wollna, fisherman from Stralsund
Oliver Zielinski, director of the Leibnitz Institute for Baltic Sea Research in Warnemünde
Florian Hoffmann, biologist with the World Wildlife Fund in Stralsund
Dag Aksnes, marine ecologist at the University of Bergen
Maren Striebel, biologist at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment in Wilhelmshaven
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Chapters
00:00 The life of a fisherman
02:36 What is wrong with the water?
05:37 How to use a Secchi disk
07:06 Why are coastal waters getting darker?
09:54 Diving for answers
12:11 What we do on land matters
16:04 The species that is benefitting from darker waters
21:27 Time for the planktotrons
29:09 The good news: We’re not doomed – here’s how
31:17 Credits