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Several large animals in the Baltic Sea have become emaciated

Leaner cods, guillemot, and seals. Sluggish and red-spotted salmon. Several of the Baltic Sea's large animals are being pressured by ill health and new environmental...

Text: Hanna Odelfors/TT

Photo: MARY EVANS PICTURE/ROLAND JOHANSSON/TORBJÖRN JACOBSSON / TT, ROLAND JOHANSSON/TT, PAULA OLSON/AP/TT, STIAN LYSBERG SOLUM/TT/NTB, HASSE HOLMBERG/TT

Baltic Sea

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Part 3 The fish is gone, but is it the seal’s fault?

The fish are running out, the herring and the baltic herring are threatened and the cod is almost completely gone. When there is a competition...

Reportage: Daniel Hager/Lena Scherman/Alexandre Gobatti

Fishing

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Reviving Hope for the Baltic Sea Cod

For an extended period, the cod population in the Baltic Sea has been facing severe challenges. Overfishing and environmental issues have taken a toll on...

Reportage: Johan Candert

Photo: Simon Stanford, Daniel Hager

UW-Photo: Johan Candert

Edit by: Alexandre Gobatti Ramos

Baltic Sea

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The Shells’ Secret can Benefit the Cod

On the rocks in Bohuslän live small, discreet shells with special properties. Snail-collecting scientists have now received clues about what is crucial for species' survival....

Text: Petra Hedbom/TT

Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall

West coast

Cod Research Bohuslän Tjärnö shells species populations

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Cod are stressed by being caught – But what do the best catching methods look like?

New research should provide an answer to that question. -Historically, fish have hardly been considered animals, I think it is important to change that. If...

Reportage: Johan Candert, Simon Stanford

Editing: Alexandre Gobatti

UW photo: Johan Candert

Photo: Simon Stanford

Fishing Other

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Cod Recovers in Öresund

Cod stocks are close to collapse in several Danish fishing waters, but in the Öresund the species seems to be recovering and this year there...

Text: Jan Samuelsson/TT

Photo: K.Nyberg / Øresundsakvariet

Fishing

fishing restrictions Cod Öresund

The gas explosion took place in the middle of the cod nursery

"It's a fantastically large emission of methane gas, and a terrible bad luck that it happened exactly where it did," says Thomas Dahlgren, a marine...

Text: Lena Scherman

Photo: Kimmo Hagman, Johan Candert

Climate and Environment

Environment Cod

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Part 2 – Cod’s hope is in Ar

In the ReCod project in Ar on Gotland, they have now succeeded in getting cod to spawn in captivity. This by trying to imitate the...

Reportage: Leif Eiranson

Editor: Apollonia Meleouni

Research

video reportage Cod ReCod Fiske

Cod provided new knowledge on important supergenes

Supergenes help many species adapt to life in different environments. They are found, for example, in cod, where stocks can live at different depths, and...

Text: Micke Larsson/TT

Photo: Tryggve Karlsen/NTB Scanpix/TT

Research

Research Mutation Cod

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Endangered Sharks meet a cruel death

On the bottom of Lysekil Harbour on Sweden’s west coast lie around 60 dead and dying Spiny Dogfish and Rays. These animals are on the...

Text: Simon Stanford

Underwater Photography: Tobias Dahlin

West coast

Cod Sharks Lysekil

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Everything on the cod will become food

Thousands of cod heads are hanging to dry on the quay off Husöy, a small island in the outer coastal strip of northern Norway. They...

Reportage: Lena Scherman

Photo: Lars Öivind, Roberto Lo Monaco

International

Cod Norway Fiske video reportage

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Part 1 – The hope of the cod is in Ar

Cod is one of the most important fish species in the Baltic Sea, but it is not doing well! Large areas of low-oxygen bottoms, decades...

Reportage: Leif Eiranson

Text: Hjalmar Palmgren

Baltic Sea

Cod ReCod fishing the baltic sea

Halting recreational fishing of cod in the Baltic Sea

From today until 31 March, all recreational fishing of cod is prohibited in the Sound and the southern Baltic Sea. This is after stricter rules...

Text: Micke Larsson/TT

Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT

Fishing

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Danish fishermen throw cod overboard

A new Danish research report shows that in recent years, 65% of all cod caught in trawlers' nets during lobster fishing have been discarded...

Text: TT

Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT

International

Cod Denmark Fiske

Fishing quotas for 2022 decided by the EU

The EU Council of Ministers has reached an agreement on next year's catch quotas for fish in the Baltic Sea and the Sound. The quotas...

Text: Daniel Hedström

Photo: Bengt Olof Olsson/Bildhuset/TT

Baltic Sea

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New research shows: more oxygen, bigger cod

For a long time, scientists, fishermen and the general public have asked themselves: Why has Baltic cod become so small? Now, maybe new research can...

Report: Fanny Jönsson and Johan Candert

Editor: Alexandre Gobatti

Photo: Simon Stanford, Martina Iverus

UV Photo: Johan Candert

Music: Martin Bianco Andersson

Research

Cod Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Food on the table, or flour for animals?

One third of all fish caught is thrown overboard or rots before it reaches the consumer - one in three fish is killed unnecessarily...

Text: Peter Löfgren

Photo: Adam Nilsson

Title image: Hanna Teleman/Scanpix/TT

Source: http://www.fao.org/state-of-fisheries-aquaculture/en/

Source: https://www.havochvatten.se/download/18.488610871726fc3fe485a06e/1591606320890/officiellstatistik-JO55SM2001.pdf

Source: https://www.forskning.se/2019/04/25/en-av-tre-ater-aldrig-fisk-och-skaldjur/

Chronicles

Cod Herring Herring Chronicle fishing östersjön the baltic sea

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New hope for the endangered Baltic cod

New discoveries open unknown nursery for the Baltic Sea's most important predatory fish - Ålandstorsken...

Report: Peter Löfgren

Photo: Simon Stanford

Photo: Leif Eiranson

Header image: Tryggve Karlsen/NTB Scanpix/TT

Baltic Sea

video reportage Cod Sea of Åland Fiske

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Loved cod!

Sweden's favorite fish has become a starving dwarf...

Report: Peter Löfgren

Photo: Leif Eiranson

Editor: Kajsa Grandell

Photo: Lars Laursen/TT

Baltic Sea

video reportage Cod fishing the baltic sea

Cod, the hope of the Sea – streaming

18 years ago, journalist Peter Löfgren made the film The Last Cod. By then, the cod stock in the Baltic Sea had declined significantly. Today,...

Baltic Sea

documentary video reportage documentary film Cod

Cod

Several large animals in the Baltic Sea have become emaciated

Part 3 The fish is gone, but is it the seal’s fault?

Reviving Hope for the Baltic Sea Cod

The Shells’ Secret can Benefit the Cod

Cod are stressed by being caught – But what do the best catching methods look like?

Cod Recovers in Öresund

The gas explosion took place in the middle of the cod nursery

Part 2 – Cod’s hope is in Ar

Cod provided new knowledge on important supergenes

Endangered Sharks meet a cruel death

Everything on the cod will become food

Part 1 – The hope of the cod is in Ar

Halting recreational fishing of cod in the Baltic Sea

Danish fishermen throw cod overboard

Fishing quotas for 2022 decided by the EU

New research shows: more oxygen, bigger cod

Food on the table, or flour for animals?

New hope for the endangered Baltic cod

Loved cod!

Cod, the hope of the Sea – streaming

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