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Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 1 pp 35–50Cite as

The TUNU-Programme: Euro-Arctic Marine Fishes—Diversity and Adaptation

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A firm focus on the scientific status, the vulnerability and the commercial potential of the Arctic marine fishes is both timely and imperative. Parallel to the ongoing and indisputable retreat of the Arctic summer sea ice, human activities increase rapidly into hitherto pristine parts of the Arctic Ocean: petroleum exploitation has begun, commercial fisheries are developing, and shipping routes across the Arctic Ocean are in operation with novel pollutants such as antifouling, ballast water and noise in their wake. Grounds for particular concern are marine bioprospecting, which eagerly extract commercially valuable compounds from otherwise little known Arctic organisms.

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Acknowledgements

I sincerely thank the members of the TUNU-Programme, the crew onboard the R/V Jan Mayen, and the Government of Greenland. I further thank G. di Prisco and C. Verde for the opportunity to write this summary, F. Strand for preparation of maps, M. Jobling for useful references, and S. Adams at Blå Rock for suitable working conditions.

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  1. Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, NO-9037, Tromsø, Norway

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Christiansen, J.S. (2012). The TUNU-Programme: Euro-Arctic Marine Fishes—Diversity and Adaptation. In: di Prisco, G., Verde, C. (eds) Adaptation and Evolution in Marine Environments, Volume 1. From Pole to Pole. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27352-0_3

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