Cod

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
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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
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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

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
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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

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

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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

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

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
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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

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/
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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
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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

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,...
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