The collapse was caused by overfishing, driven by the introduction of industrial-scale trawlers, sonar, and other technological advancements. These developments, combined with government mismanagement and flawed cod population models (which had been based on optimistic predictions of cod reproduction and survival), led to a catastrophic decline in the cod population.
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