For decades, fishers in the Baltic Sea caught cod relentlessly, using large nets. Smaller fish could escape more easily ...

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.

Disappearing species. With fish populations plummeting since the 1970s, ... "The more the Baltic Sea becomes a lake, the more harmful the situation will be for marine species," explains Jukka ...

Two species of flatfish were studied in the Baltic and the North Sea — the two most polluted seas — in order to figure out the link between cancer defences and pollution Baines comparative study of ...

Intresting case of Punctuated Equilibria sub-speciation in the Atlantic herring. It colonized brakish and very recently fully formed Baltic sea (8 Ka BP).

"The Baltic Sea is entering a period of warmer and probably even fresher seawater. In new conditions, all species must try to adapt in order to survive, including the important bladderwrack," says ...

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.

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.

The species was officially registered as an invasive species in the North American Great Lakes, parts of Europe and the Baltic Sea in the 90s, according to the U.S. Geology Survey Nonindigenous ...

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 ...