What factors led to the commercial extinction of northern cod? (site 1)
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Despite its efforts to manage the fisheries, the ICNAF overestimated the abundance of northern cod as well as the stock's growth rate during the 1970s and assigned TACs that were too high to be sustainable. Overexploitation by international fishing fleets forced the species into decline.
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