Beyond the fish, the entire ecosystem of the Baltic, a shallow, semi-enclosed sea covering almost 400,000 km² and bordered by nine riparian countries from Denmark to Russia, is in danger.

Nitrate pollution is destroying Europe’s aquatic ecosystems. Three decades after the EU started regulating it, there has been ...

Atlantic and Baltic herring have a key role in the ecosystem, acting as a critical link between plankton production and other organisms, like predatory fish, sea birds, sea mammals, and humans ...

The Council today reached a political agreement on new limits on fish catches for the Baltic Sea's key fish stocks, including herring, cod, plaice, sprat, and salmon, in order to ensure sustainable ...

The Baltic’s salt water has eaten away at casings, exposing toxic explosives like TNT directly to the water. Maser has been involved in research that has found TNT in mussels and fish around ...

Now a team of robots and divers are making the Baltic Sea safer. By Paul Hockenos / Hakai ... themselves to no more than two meals of local fish a week to reduce exposure to heavy metals, dioxins ...

Instead, he and his colleagues essentially dumped pharmaceuticals into fish just before they were set to migrate from the River Dal in Sweden to the Baltic Sea. The team implanted slow-release ...

But because neural wiring in fish resembles that of mammals ... hurtle over rapids and crest two dams before finally reaching the Baltic Sea. The journey takes 10 to 13 days.

A tlantic and Baltic herring are typical plankton-eating fish of central importance for the northern Atlantic Ocean and Baltic Sea ecosystems. A new study published in Nature Communications led by ...