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Title: Hypotheses for the Decline of Cod in the North Atlantic.

Authors: Myers, R. A., J. A. Hutchings, and N. J. Barrowman.

Citation: Myers, R. A., J. A. Hutchings, and N. J. Barrowman. 1996. Hypotheses for the Decline of Cod in the North Atlantic. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 138, no. 1-3: 293-308.

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Keywords: cod, Gadus morhua, fish stocks, North Atlantic ocean, fishing, overexploitation, overfishing, spawning, collapse, cod stocks, decline, stocks, recruitment, mortality, density-dependent mortality, demersal Fish, commercial fisheries, management

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