Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

When vacationers head into the water, they often take a quick look at the ocean floor—and for good reason. In some European ...

In 2005, on Öland itself, it was estimated that algal blooms resulted in losses of approximately €11 million for the tourism and fishing sectors ... One of the major causes in the Baltic Sea is a ...

Decades of overfishing have altered the genetic makeup of Baltic cod, shrinking their size and threatening their recovery.

Two new studies add to the evidence that human activity, from fishing to urban development, is driving the evolution of wild ...

The researchers demonstrated for the first time that decades of intense fishing, combined with environmental change, have ...

(CN) — Intensive fishing caused the once-mighty cod to shrink by roughly half its size between 1996 and 2019, according to a ...

How Humans have altered the Genetic Make-Up of Fish Ilka Thomsen Kommunikation und Medien GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für ...

As we near the end of the week, many will be looking forward to 'fish and chip Friday'. But it's bad news for those who've got their heart set on a large portion.

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size — over a metre in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms — and abundance, they, alongside herring ...

Back to homepage / Live news Ailing Baltic Sea in need of urgent attention Helsinki (AFP) – Decades of pollution and climate change have caused fish to disappear from the Baltic Sea at an ...

Decades of pollution and climate change have caused fish to disappear from the Baltic Sea at an alarming rate, with the European Union on Thursday vowing to make the sea an "urgent priority".