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bigger ships and new processing equipment to manage the massive growth in catch was
1968, the year that the sh landings peaked. There is no question that extracting all the
cod from the North Atlantic made some people very rich and provided some jobs for
a period of time. The political ght was focused on the gures produced by industry
scientists regarding the total size of the resource in order to determine the size of the
quotas. However, in retrospect, the only thing that could have saved the resource was
regulation of the technology—basically limiting the size of the ships and ...