Sweden’s favourite fish has become a starving dwarf.
Decades of predation threaten to wipe out the unique Baltic cod. It is our most popular food fish, but also a social creature. The environment minister says he has looked the cod in the eye – and sensed its soul. And there are promising signs in the depths: the primal force of evolution is the hope of both man and cod.
Report: Peter Löfgren
Photo: Leif Eiranson
Editor: Kajsa Grandell
Photo: Lars Laursen/TT
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