Greenland’s sustainable halibut fishery may threaten newfound corals, sponges

2022-09-06 14:12
In the Davis Strait between Greenland and Canada’s Baffin Island, where only the faintest rays of sunlight penetrate, swim strange-looking flat fish with both eyes on the right side of their heads. These are Greenland halibut (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides), which industrial bottom trawlers have fished here for decades. To get the halibut in Greenlandic waters, the […]