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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland (AP) — The Canadian government has ended the Newfoundland and Labrador cod moratorium, which gutted the Atlantic coast province’s economy and transformed its small communities ...