Billions of Juvenile Fish under the Arctic Sea Ice

By Benjamin Lange, Carmen David, Fokje Schaafsma, Hauke Flores, Jan Andries van Franeker, Thomas Krumpen on Nov 15, 2015   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Using a new net, marine biologists from the Alfred Wegener Institute have, for the first time, been able to catch polar cod directly beneath the Arctic sea ice with a trawl, allowing them to determine their large-scale distribution and origin. This information is of fundamental importance, as polar cod are a major source of food […]