Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden

The water of the Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden contains very little salt because it has no direct link to the Baltic Sea. The canal to the Großer Jasmunder Bodden, which only has a salt content of 0.6 to 0.7 per cent itself, is too small to deliver salt continuously. The bodden is rich in fish. Its water quality is poor, however, due to discharges from the sewage works at Bergen and eutrophication is well advanced. However, an improvement in water quality is still being sought. The moor area of the Ossen lowland near Buschvitz was renatured and an open connection created between the Ossen and the Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden.^[3] The dam to the Great Jasmunder Bodden and the dam between Stedar and the Pulitz peninsula are also to be opened.^[4]

By the Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden is a 9.8 kilometre long circular walk that starts at Lietzow. The trail is classed as moderate and is used by hikers, runners and ornithologists.^[5]

The bodden has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports large numbers of wintering waterfowl as well as breeding sandwich terns and white-tailed sea-eagles.^[6]

• Literature about Kleiner Jasmunder Bodden in the State Bibliography (Landesbibliographie) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

54°26′N 13°30′E / 54.433°N 13.500°E / 54.433; 13.500