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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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".

A 2024 study said sea surface and sea floor temperatures have increased by 1.8°C and 1.3°C in the Finnish archipelago in the northern Baltic Sea, in the period from 1927 to 2020.

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".

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".