their preferred food is polar cod, Boreogadus saida. “For the first time, we’ve been able to use a special net directly below the sea ice to catch a large number of polar cod” explains AWI ...

Diet of polar cod The analysis showed that the diet of juvenile polar cod is more varied than previously assumed, and varies by location and season. To gain more insight into feeding behavior, the ...

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 ...