Mathias Labah normally catches fish in the Baltic Sea but today, the rope he is pulling out of the water a few kilometres off Germany's north coast is not a net filled with herring or cod, but a plastic cylinder about 30 centimetres long. Labah carefully hoists the device onto the deck of the Solea research vessel, frees it from the water and reveals an innovative probe which could play a vital role in how the crisis-ridden coastal fishermen and women of northern Germany could earn more money an
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A Spanish company is aiming to factory farm octopuses for their meat, contending that it would help conserve the creatures in the wild. But critics argue that caging these highly sensitive mollusks, whose intelligence science is still revealing, would be cruel and inhumane.
Tons of World War II munitions, a huge dead zone and global warming are putting the squeeze on the already highly vulnerable Baltic Sea. Can this crucial European body of water still be saved?
On Germany’s Baltic coast, from Wismar to Rostock, herring have inspired devotion for centuries. Today, they’re still treasured, whether served fried with potatoes or pickled with raw onion.