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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈@whysharksmatter.bsky.social |
Holy shit
The fact that the cod fish stock, which was once so vast that it played a major role in Europeans colonizing North America, hasn’t recovered since the fishery collapsed in the 1990s is in every marine biology textbook.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Cosmic Doomrock
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It's such a well known thing that we were taught about it in elementary schools here. And the knock on effects directly shaped a chunk of the rest of the country and it's history
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Miles Grant
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? the cod stock has not recovered
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Celeste Leander
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I literally teach about this modelling mistake in 1st yr biol - where they assumed schooling patterns that didn’t scale
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Katie Matthews, PhD
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Oceana Canada: oceana.ca/en/press-rel...
"given the recent roll-over of the capelin quota, removing almost 15,000 t of cod’s primary food source. Their availability was the single biggest factor impeding cod's recovery, so these combined decisions put the future of both stocks in jeopardy..."
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