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Overhunting

Depleting a renewable resourceAtlantic cod stocks were severely overexploited in the 1970s and 1980s, leading to their abrupt collapse in 1992.Overexploitation, also called overharvesting or ecological overshoot, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.

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