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Collapse of the cod fisheries

Illustrated graph of the collapse of the cod fisheries.

Overfishing of the Atlantic cod off the coast of America led to a collapse in the numbers of this species. Fish stocks fell below the reproductive replacement and numbers plummeted.

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