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• Wednesday, October 14th 2015 - 21:08 UTC

  Billions of juvenile polar cod under the Arctic ice, confirmed by German marine biologists

  

  Using a new net, marine biologists from Germany's 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 for seals, whales and seabirds in the Arctic.