Question:CAUSE: Large schools of Atlantic Cod were known to be in international waters off the coast of Canada/United States. Fishing boat technologyincreased in the mid-1900s.What was the combined EFFECT of increases in fishing technology and a plentiful stock of fish in international waters from the 1950s to the1980s?Phenomena below: Resource Exploitation of the Atlantic Cod fishing stockHuman Activities- Tragedy of the CommonsOverexploitation of cod fishery- grand banks. Fisherywas found in international waters, so boats from manydifferent countries were harvesting fish. Each group wasracing to catch the fish before another ship. No one wasconcerned about the stability of the fish population,only their own profits.CANADALabradorQuebecFish landings in tons900 000Newfoundlarid800 000Grand Banks ofNewfoundlandUSNova Scotia700 000600 000500 000400 0001992300 000200 000100 0001850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000Source: Millennium Ecosystem AssessmentO Fishing technology allowed boats to catch reasonable amounts of fish and keep the fish population stable.Many fishermen from different countries could catch many more fish than ever before, so they fished until the population of Cod collapsed toalmost no fish.O Fishermen didn't pursue the Atlantic Cod, because it was located in international water.The population of Atlantic Cod kept rising no matter how much technology the fishing boats used.

There are few points about fishing technologies are as follows: fishing technology is one of the…

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Aquaculture Science

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There are few points about fishing technologies are as follows:

fishing technology is one of the good technology and being the earliest stages of development.
It provide the information about the fisheries and on market level.
there are some problems also created due to the overfishing there is decline of fishes and it also affect the ecosystem.

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