Eastern Baltic cod grow to much smaller sizes than they did just 30 years ago, because overfishing altered their genes, ...

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The year 1968 is when the cod catch peaked, at about 800,000 metric tons, which is just an egregious amount of fish. And cod stocks began to decline after that.

In 40 years of commercial haddock and cod fishing, my husband had only seen one fish that looked like this. He also saw one that looked like a cross between a cod and a pollack.

But as cod in the UK increasingly move north to find cooler water, scientists are concerned that local “accents” – and noise pollution – may hamper future breeding. British cod fish are ...