Figure 23.15 A collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery. from 1850 to 1960, there was a slow increase in the catch of Atlantic cod by commercial fishermen off the coast of Newfoundland in eastern Canada. New technologies in the 1970s and 1980s allowed much larger catches of cod, but this led to an overharvest of the fish and a collapse of the population in 1992 that persists today.

Figure from Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Ecosystems and Human Well-being: Synthesis (Island Press, Washington, D.C., 2005).