Regulations safeguarding cod stocks did not evolve alongside the world's ability to harvest fish, and governments or international bodies sometimes assigned quotas based on economic factors rather than ecological ones. Although conservation became an increasing concern after the 1960s, officials consistently overestimated the size of cod stocks and, as a result, also overestimated the amount of cod fishers could harvest at sustainable levels.
The factors that led to the commercial extinction of the northern cod is countries had set quotas, they set them as high as possible to protect their economies.
Comets originate from the Kuiper belt while asteroids originate from the Oort cloud. The Kuiper belt is within the solar system while the Oort cloud is outside the solar system.
A genus is typically the name for a small group of closely related organisms. The second part of a scientific name, axyridis in this example, is the specific epithet. It is used to identify a particular species as separate from others belonging to the same genus.
