Excessive fishing has forced Baltic cod to undergo genetic changes that have halved their size over the past 30 years, a new study has found. The research, published in the journal Science Advances, ...

The eastern Baltic cod has shrunk dramatically in size in recent decades due to rapid evolution — changes at the genetic level — caused by decades of intensive fishing, a new study says. It’s one of ...

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size — over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms — and abundance, they, alongside herring, were the backbone of the Baltic fishery. Today, a ...