News tagged with atlantic cod

Marine scientist discusses cod colonization

New evidence suggests that Atlantic cod may have the ability to affect entire food webs in both benthic and pelagic marine ecosystems, according to a University of Maine marine scientist, writing in the Proceedings of ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In cod we trust: DNA test combats fisheries fraud

Scientists on Tuesday said they had devised a DNA test to pinpoint the geographical origins of commercial seafish, in a breakthrough against illegal trawling that threatens fish stocks worldwide.

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sequencing of cod genome reveals unique immune system characteristic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working out of Norway's University of Oslo have discovered through sequencing the genome of the Atlantic cod that the fish doesn't have a gene critical to the immune system in ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Did the North Atlantic fisheries collapse due to fisheries-induced evolution?

The Atlantic cod has, for many centuries, sustained major fisheries on both sides of the Atlantic. However, the North American fisheries have now largely collapsed. A new paper in the open-access, peer-reviewed journal PLoS ON ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Impaired recovery of Atlantic cod -- forage fish or other factors?

In a rapid communication just published in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, biologist Douglas Swain of the Gulf Fisheries Centre and Robert Mohn, emeritus scientist, at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Whole Foods to stop sale of unsustainable seafood

(AP) -- Whole Foods Market said Friday that it will stop selling fish caught from depleted waters or through ecologically damaging methods, a move that comes as supermarkets nationwide try to make their seafood ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cod mislabeling 4 times more prevalent in Ireland than UK, study shows

28% of cod products in Ireland are mislabelled, as compared to 7% in the UK, according to research published today in the journal Fish and Fisheries.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0