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

The seal population has increased from about 4,000, considered nearly extinct, in the late 1980s to about 50,000.

The concentration of microplastics in water and fish from the Baltic Sea has been constant for the past 30 years, despite a substantial increase in plastic production during the same period ...

The EU Fisheries Ministers will meet and decide on next year’s total allowable catches for the Baltic Sea during the Council meeting, 22 October 2015. WWF urges the Council not to once again break ...

The grey seals slide out of their cages into the Baltic Sea near the Lithuanian coast, swimming off to new lives imperilled ...

For over a decade, Pörtner and colleagues followed the declining fortunes of the eelpout fish (Zoarces viviparous), which lives on the bed of the North Sea and Baltic Sea.Used to a chilly ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --New research suggests a healthy seal population is not a threat to commercial fish stocks in the Baltic Sea. Fish stocks in the North Atlantic, including Baltic cod, herring and ...

The grey seals in the Baltic Sea compete for fish with the fishing industry. The seals locally eat about the same quantities of cod, common whitefish, salmon, sea trout and eel as those taken by ...

Ecosystem-based fisheries management restores western Baltic fish stocks. Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) Journal Frontiers in Marine Science DOI 10.3389/fmars.2022.879998.

Excessive fishing has forced Baltic cod to undergo genetic changes that have halved their size over the past 30 years, a new study has found.. The research, published in the journal Science ...

Brussels, Belgium / Gland, Switzerland – Fish from some areas of the Baltic Sea are so contaminated that they may be too toxic for EU markets, warns WWF. According to a new report, Clean Baltic within ...