A new publication in the Journal of Fish Biology compares the diet of fish caught during different expeditions on board icebreaker Polarstern. This provides a more complete picture of their food ...

European fisheries ministers are about to adopt new measures that may put the recovery of the Baltic Sea cod stocks at risk. The proposal now on the table will reduce the minimum legal size of caught ...

Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research Polar cod fulfil a key role in the Arctic food web, as they are a major source of food for seals, whales and seabirds alike.

Species interactions that play out over large spatial scales are difficult to observe, particularly in the oceans. The current lack of empirical evidence for biologically meaningful interaction ...