Professor Harald Rosenthal Institut fur Meereskunde University of Kiel Dusternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany Email: haro.train@t-online.de

Positions held:

• Since 1989 until present: University Professor at Kiel University, Institute for Marine Science, Department of Fishery Biology.
• Since 1977 until present: Member of the Programme Committee of the German-Israeli bilateral Cooperation Programme on Aquaculture and aquatic research (sponsored by the BMFT(Federal Ministry of Science, Bonn
• 1982-1986 : Member of the Aquaculture Planning Group (Technical Working Group on Technology, Growth and Employment, established by the Seven Heads of States (G7) at the Versailles Summit).
• Since 1985 until present: Member of the ICES Working Group on Transfers and Introductions of marine organisms. (particularly contributing to the development of the ICES/EIFAC "Code of Practice" regarding introductions of exotic species
• Since 1986 until 2000: Chairman - ICES Working Group on "Environmental Impact of Mariculture", since 1993 renamed to "Environmental Interactions of Mariculture", dealing also with wild stock interactions, ranching, genetic interactions with wild salmonid populations
• 1987-1990: Chairman of Mariculture Committee and Member of the Consultative Committee (ICES).
• since 1987: Coordinator of the bilateral scientific cooperation agreement between Germany and Canada in the field of "Aquatic Sciences", including fishery programmes, enhancement and restocking programmes, modern aquaculture systems and technology developments, pollution studies in coastal and freshwaters, limnological projects, fish larval and rearing studies, oceanographic programmes, Arctic Ice and climate cahnge, application of ozone in water treatment of hatcheries, etc.
• 1990/1991 Member of the Programme and Review Committee of ICLARM on behalf of CGIAAR and the World Bank.
• 1988-1994: Liaison-Scientist to ICLARM for Germany.
• 1992 Organizer and Co-Chairman of programme of the Workshop on "Fish Farm Effluents and their Control in EC Countries" , Hamburg November 1992.
• 1995 Co-Chairman of the ICES Workshop on "Coastal Zone Management issues in realtion to Aquaculture and Fisheries" Kiel, July, 1995
• 1994/1995 Chairman of an International Scientific Advisory Committee (ISAC) to the Research Council of Norway to establish a European Laboratory for Marine Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the University of Bergen.
• 1996 Member, Evaluation Committee on "Coastal Zone Management and Aquaculture Projects MISTRA' (Ministry of the Research and Development, Stockholm, Sweden) 1998 Member, Programme Committee "Coastal Zone Canada '98", Victoria BC Canada,
• 2000: Member, Scientific Steering Committee, 4th Int. Symposium on Sturgeons, Wisconsin, USA.
• 2000: Expert Panel on "Escaped farm fish and wildlife Interactions". Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
• 2001: Member,Advisory Board (Curatorium) of the Zentrum fur Tropenokologie (Center for Tropical Ecology) at the University of Bremen.
• 2001: Member, Advisory Board of the Institut for Aquatic Ecology and Inland Fisheries of the Humboldt University Berlin.
• 2002 - 2004 Sector Coordinator in aquatic sciences on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in Bonn, Germany within the bilateral Science and Technology cooperation agreements between Canada and Brazil.

International Cooperation

Between 1974 and 2002 participating in fisheries and aquaculture research programmes with scientists and industries from different continents on schemes sponsored nationally, bilaterally and internationally (including several EU-projects, Developing Aid Programmes from Germany and other international organisations, e.g. FAO, International Science Foundations, etc). Programmes carried out or in progress relate to countries such as Japan (larval rearing of red sea bream larvae for mass culture and ranching programmes), Brazil (culture and ranching of local mullet species in Lagos dos Patos; biological aspects of larval physiology; concepts and construction of a marine biology laboratory in the State of Paranah), Chile (studies on salmon farming interactions with the environment, courses on aquaculture technology),Thailand (Studies on Recruitment of the Indo-Pacific Mackerel Rastrelliger sp. and experimental rearing trials) , Indonesia (fisheries in the Mahakam system, Kalimantan Timur, hatchery design and operation for mass rearing of freshwater fishes, including local and introduced species: as a consequence of this initiative, subsequent projects developed into over 400 small-scale family-type fishfarms) ,Sri Lanka (Reservoir fishery and stock enhancement, control of reproduction of tilapias in irrigation reservoirs, an FAO project), (interactions of fish farming and toxic algal bloom problems in coastal habitats (Aquatoxyl : in cooperation with Chile and Argentina).