Curated playlist
Commercial fish
- CodCanada closed the Northern Cod fishery off Newfoundland in 1992. Cod biomass had fallen to less than 1% of normal.
- PlaiceIn the North Sea, a plaice older than six years is now rare. The flatfish can live for fifty years.
- HaddockThe haddock wears a dark blotch called the Devil's thumbprint. Scientists named its genus after it.
- MackerelIn 1976, fewer than 10 percent of surveyed British housewives had ever bought mackerel.
- HerringA dying Thomas Aquinas asked for one last comfort in 1274: fresh herring. This small silvery fish once fed empires.
- SardineA Marseille folk tale says a giant sardine blocked the port. The real culprit was a ship named the Sartine.
- SharkShark populations have dropped 71% since 1970, mostly from overfishing and finning.
- SalmonSalmon from central Idaho, Chinook and sockeye alike, travel over 900 miles from the Pacific and climb nearly 7,000 feet to spawn. Each of these fish is going home, to the freshwater stream where it hatched before heading out to live in…
- Beluga (sturgeon)A beluga sturgeon caught in 1827 weighed 1,571 kilograms. These fish never stop growing, but few are left.
- CatfishA Mekong giant catfish caught in northern Thailand on the 1st of May 2005 weighed 293 kilograms. The press only heard about it almost two months later. Thai officials began keeping records of such catches in 1981, and no Mekong giant on…