Some recent scholarship has focused on integrating local and/or traditional knowledge with conventional scientific information in fisheries management to improve the factual foundation of and ...

Warming waters in the Gulf of Maine have reduced Atlantic cod populations in that region and distorted estimates of how many fish were available to catch, a new study finds. Cod stocks have decreased ...

Male cod in the open ocean are producing vitellogenin, an egg-yolk protein ordinarily made only by females. Vitellogenin “is a highly specific indicator of a fish’s exposure to estrogens”—female sex ...

The Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, has been a pillar of New England’s fisheries for centuries. Yet, despite carefully managed harvesting limits, these cod stocks teetering on the verge of collapse have ...

Norwegian research has revealed that the immune system of cod is very different from other fish and from mammals -- a discovery that may shed light on the human immune system as well. Norwegian ...

Researchers used juvenile Pacific cod collected by the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center Fisheries Behavioral Ecology program from 16 sites around Kodiak Island in mid-July and late August for the ...

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 fully ...