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by vkou 1193 days ago
> There was a bombshell report about an immediate moratorium on crab fishing in Alaska, that came out of nowhere, seemingly. About a month later there was a (very, very quiet) report justifying the moratorium. The short version is that effectively scientists had been asking for reduction in fishing in the area for decades and finally the remaining stock in the area was so low it was critically endangering the ecosystem there. So they finally put in a hard stop after years of kicking the can down the road.

The Atlantic cod industry waves hi.

Or, it would, if there was still an Atlantic cod industry.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Historical-Atlantic-cod-...