Langs de Lauwersmeerdijk worden de komende tijd een tiental speciaal ontworpen rifelementen in de Waddenzee geplaatst. Het doel: het onderwaterleven aangenamer maken en de biodiversiteit vergroten.

On October 22st, 2021, the first ever recorded Diadema sea urchins in the Caribbean were cultured on Saba. Diadema sea urchins are important grazers and can facilitate corals by reducing their competition with algae. By culturing them, researchers from University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein …

Kun je als vis Friesland een beetje vlot in- en uitzwemmen langs de kust? Op die vraag gaan honderden gezenderde vissen – inclusief de palingen uit de Suderie – een antwoord geven, middels een project van hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein.

Het is een reis van zo'n 6.000 kilometer, maar vooral op de eerste kilometers komen ze allerlei obstakels tegen: de palingen die van Fryslân naar de Sargassozee bij Bermuda willen.

The hydrozoan species Nemalecium lighti (Hargitt, 1924) is widely distributed in tropical marine waters around the world. Here we report the complete linear mitochondrial genome of N. lighti from Sint Eustatius (Lesser Antilles). The mitochondrial genome with a length of 14,320 bp encodes for 13 protein-coding …

Assessing the umami taste of seaweed on a chemical level can inform the use and selection of seaweed in European cuisine. Accordingly, we developed a method for the simultaneous extraction, separate clean-up and analysis of 21 free amino acids and 10 free nucleotides by reversed phase and mixed-mode …

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic mental health problems among seafarers became more visible to the world. Seafarers seem to have some unhappy moments while working on board for several months. Especially during this pandemic life on board has been tougher than usual, shore leave is nearly impossible, …

Description of the establishment of both Gymnophthalmus underwoodi and Indotyphlops braminus on Saba, Dutch Caribbean.

In en rond de Súd Ie wordt door studenten en onderzoekers van hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein een netwerk van onderwaterantennes aangelegd om de bewegingen van trekkende vissen te volgen.

In this research paper, it was concluded that there still remains a lot of uncertainty in the predicament of when a gas-trip can occur on dual-fuel propelled ships. In a situation on board of the Coral Energy, these gas-trips resulted in the main engine not being able to switch-over to gas-mode again. …