Scientists Link Decline of Baltic Cod to Hypoxia - and Climate Change

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 09:40 in Earth & Climate

If you want to know how climate change and hypoxia -- the related loss of oxygen in the world's oceans -- affect fish species such as the economically important Baltic cod, all you have to do is ask the fish. Those cod, at least, will tell you that hypoxia is making them smaller, scrawnier and less valuable. A paper published today in the journal Biology Letters points to a link between hypoxia and fish well-being.

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