For decades, fishers in the Baltic Sea caught cod relentlessly, using large nets. Smaller fish could escape more easily ...

The seal population has increased from about 4,000, considered nearly extinct, in the late 1980s to about 50,000.

Sea turning into a lake. With stocks plummeting since the 1970s, Baltic herring could face the same fate as many other species that all but disappeared from the region.

Intresting case of Punctuated Equilibria sub-speciation in the Atlantic herring. It colonized brakish and very recently fully formed Baltic sea (8 Ka BP).

The EU countries have agreed on the new Baltic Sea fishing quotas, to include a 108 percent increase for herring starting next year. The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council set the 2025 quotas, ...

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg surveyed 10,000 kilometres of coast and found twenty species of sea lettuce. Green macroalgae of the genus Ulva, also known as sea lettuce, are almost ...

Researchers have successfully revived algae that remained dormant within sediment at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for more than 7,000 years. The tiny diatom cells have regained full biological ...

EU member states reached an agreement on Tuesday (22 October) on new quotas for main fish stocks in the Baltic Sea – prompting immediate criticism from environmental and marine campaigners. “With ...

The European Commission proposed restrictive quotas in the Baltic Sea for all species except for herring while also calling for stricter application of EU fishing rules, on Monday (26 August).