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| P1 intro of cod fishers in NA, cod fisheries collapsed
 Voracious predator, prey eg. Sprates, capelins, young lobster, and snow crabs
 To allow cod to recover, managers put strict limits on the cod fisheries or even banned
 Mathematical model=>if the fish were left unmolested, the population recover
 
 P2 predictions were wrong
 KF: predication of the recovery 5-6 years
 However, the prediction was wrong. After six years, no signal of recovery.
 Instead, the population languished a few percent
 
 P3 KF figured out the reason
 Initial estimate: how fast cod reproduce, not on how the whole web is organized
 Adult cod fed on sprats, capelins, and forage fish; forge fish eat eggs and larvae of cod
 
 P4 explanation of reason
 Before cod overfished: cod kept forage fish in check => small fish can not enough eggs and larvae to reduce cod population
 Human lowers population of cod => tables turned
 Forage fish boom => eat a substantial fraction of eggs and larvae
 Even without human fishing, cod could not rebound
 
 P5 KF sees the sign of delayed recovery
 After falling to 1% of pre-crash level, cod rose to 30%
 Key: KF said, forage fish exploded to such high numbers that outstripped their own food supply
 Population of forage fish dropped=>larvae of cod better chance to reach adulthood
 If cod return to their former level, they will able to keep the populations of their forage fish down once more
 KF: that’s the trajectory, ecosystem is complex
 
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