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

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

This equates to zero catches in subdivision 24 (Baltic Sea west of Bornholm) in order to comply with the zero catch advised for eastern Baltic cod (where there is mixing of eastern and western Baltic ...

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.

The agreement in detail. The Council’s agreement on TACs and quotas in the Baltic Sea for 2024 is based on the latest scientific advice provided by the International Council for the Exploration of the ...

Today, the Council reached an agreement on next year's fishing opportunities in the Baltic Sea, focusing on fish stock recovery.Ministers agreed to continue decreasing the fishing opportunities for ...

In an attempt to give more adult eels the chance to spawn, the EU Commission is recognizing the commercial fishery of eel and proposing to stop fishing on eel in Baltic Sea waters for 2018. "This ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Teams of sea rescuers and wildlife experts on Wednesday successfully freed a whale that got caught in fishing nets near a popular Baltic Sea resort in Poland. It took about ...

Sea rescuers and wildlife activists in dinghies approach a whale to cut it loose from fishing nets off the Baltic Sea beach near Miedzyzdroje, Poland, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

Almost a tenth of the world's marine waste consists of ghost nets. In the Baltic Sea alone, up to 10,000 abandoned parts of nets, torn from inshore fisheries or lost by fishing boats, enter the ...

Baltic Sea shipwreck from 19th century found with 'more than 100 bottles of Champagne' ... "One of the wrecks on the sonar was barely scratching and looked like a fishing boat," Stachura said.

Sea rescuers watch a whale that got caught in fishing nets as they prepare to assist in cutting it loose, off the Baltic Sea beach near Miedzyzdroje, Poland, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.