By Edward Carver The eastern Baltic cod has shrunk dramatically in size in recent decades due to rapid evolution — changes at ...

Sea turning into a lake. With stocks plummeting since the 1970s, Baltic herring could face the same fate as many other species that all but disappeared from the region.

A new study reveals that decades of overfishing have altered the evolution of cod in the eastern Baltic Sea. The research, published in the journal Science Advances on June 25, aimed to answer a ...

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

The overall sustainability of EU fisheries continues to improve, with more fish stocks being fished at sustainable levels. Climate change continues to impact fishing communities, reducing the fish ...

Atlantic 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 ...

Overfishing continues to be one of the biggest causes of marine degradation. Fish stocks in the Baltic Sea are at roughly 30-40% below their historical average[1] and risk further decline.

New fish species have arrived in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal due to warmer waters or carried in the ballast tanks of ships, endangering the survival ...

Facebook X Reddit Email Save. Fish evolution is so strange that it's given us species that can count, change color by "seeing" with its skin and even fish that can "sing." But sea robins in the ...

Pensoft Publishers. (2024, September 17). New 'grumpy' fish species discovered in the Red Sea. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 12, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 09 / 240916115426.htm ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant within sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more than 7,000 years. The tiny diatom cells have regained full biological ...