American cod sound "distinctively different" from their British counterparts. — -- It's a tale as old as time: Boy meets girl, but they speak different languages. However, in this case, the ...

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.

Cod used to be giants. With their impressive size—over a meter in length and weighing up to 40 kilograms—and abundance, they, alongside herring, were the backbone of the Baltic fishery. Today ...

Study lead author Kwi Young Han holds a fully grown cod in two hands. Thorsten Reusch, GEOMAR These fish used to be enormous. In 1996, the biggest Baltic cod grew more than three feet long.