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US Atlantic cod population to drop by half

A University of British Columbia researcher put a number to the impact of climate change on world fisheries at today's Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Chicago. A team of researchers from UBC's Sea Around Us Project and Princeton University used computer models to simulate changes in ocean temperature and current patterns caused by various climate change scenarios –and how they affect 1,066 commercially important fish and shellfish species from around the world, including cod, herring, sharks, groupers and prawns. "We found that on average, the animals may shift their distribution towards the poles ...
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Atlantic Cod Fish Species Information

Scientific Fish Name: Gadus morhua
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Regions Fished: In the western Atlantic Ocean cod has a distribution north of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and round both coasts of Greenland; in the eastern Atlantic it is found from the Bay of Biscay north to the Arctic Ocean, including the Baltic Sea, the North Sea,
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Atlantic Cod grow to two metres (6 1/2 feet) in length and weigh up to 96 kilos. It can live for 25 years and sexual maturity is generally attained between ages 2 to 4[1], but can be as late as 8 years.


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