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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hundreds of cod equipped with high-tech mini-thermometers have helped determine which water temperatures the fish can handle. Hundreds of cod equipped with high-tech mini-thermometers have helped ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Perhaps our species’s greatest misconception ...

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 ...