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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANDWICH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Third paragraph, first sentence of the release dated October 21, 2016 should read:...younger chemists and students at U Mass Dartmouth, Woods Hole Oceanographic ...

Today, cod stocks are on the verge of collapse, hovering at 3-4 percent of sustainable levels. Even cuts to the fishery have failed to slow this rapid decline, surprising both fishermen and fisheries ...

Scientists at Cardiff University (Wales, UK) have confirmed what thousands of people with arthritis have believed for years. Cod Liver Oil really is effective in treating joint pain and can slow, even ...

The nearly 3,000-pound monstrous great white shark tagged by a Cape Cod researcher has really be on the move. White shark “LeeBeth” has traveled more than 2,000 miles since she was tagged in December ...