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Impact of 21st Century Climate Change on Baltic Sea Fish ... - BALTEX

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Cod in a Hostile <strong>Baltic</strong>?How could there be important fisheries in the (northern) <strong>Baltic</strong>in an apparently cod-hostile ecosystem?Hypotheses:1. Better salinity and oxygen c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s? (positive effects <strong>on</strong> recruitmentand spatial distributi<strong>on</strong>)-needs paleo-evidence2. <strong>Fish</strong>ing effort and mortality rates were much lower than now.-allowed cod biomass to remain high, despite potentially lower 1º prodn.and higher predati<strong>on</strong> rates and food competiti<strong>on</strong> due to seals-is very likely (simpler technologies, no fishing <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>fshore, etc.)MacKenzie et al. 2007 <strong>Fish</strong>. Res.

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