Biodiversity Conservation in Canada:
From Theory to Practice



Fig. 6.8. The abundance of northern cod, 1983–2016, from autumn research vessels surveys. Stock levels remained collapsed for 20 years despite a moratorium on commercial harvesting implemented in 1992, but are now beginning to recover. Source: FOC 2017b.


Decline in northern cod

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