Dr Kwi Young Han holds a cod. Once a giant, today a full-grown specimen can be held in two hands. The 'shrinking' of the cod, as well as the decline in its population, is due to decades of intensive ...

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, a fully ...