What caused the collapse of canada's atlantic cod?

Overfishing. Many authors have cited overfishing as the cause of the cod stock collapse. In the case of the Newfoundland cod, there were three distinct groups involved in harvesting the resource: local inshore fishermen, Canadian draggers and trawlers, and deep-sea foreign fishing vessels.

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