New TV-clip on Clancy!

07/11/2025

1 minute

First-ever footage of adult Chinese mitten crabs caught within one of Clancy's traps in Germany! Watch the footage on YouTube or at ZDF mediathek.

A TV team from ZDF (a German public-service television broadcaster) visited our partner the Alfred-Wegener-Institute in Bremen and Bremerhaven. They documented the adult crabs being caught by our traps in Bremen, Germany and explain the idea behing the project as well as our plans with the biomass.

YouTube clip produced by German public broadcaster ZDF on Chinese mitten crabs during their autumn migration trying to answer how this invasive species can be controlled.

Björn being interviewed by ZDF team

Olli presenting the catch of the day

Adult crabs caught in the Clancy trap in Bremen

Oliver emptying the trap

Oliver feeding fish at AWI