Too little, too late: the desperate search for cod babies

Historically, it was overfishing that the hurt much-prized fish - but now rising ocean temperatures are inhibiting the fish's ability to produce codlings at allGu?rún Bjarnadóttir Bech sings to herself while she sorts through baby fish with a pair of tweezers. "Ding! Ding! Ding!" she suddenly bursts out. "That's a plaice," she says - her reaction testament to how few she sees.It is 2021 and Bech is working onboard the Jákup Sverri, a Faroese marine research ship that's trawling for juvenile fish around the Faroe Islands in the north Atlantic to assess the state of populations including haddock, sand eel and Norwegian pout. Continue reading...