The deep-sea species orange roughy was first fished commercially in the late 1970s. At the time it was not understood that the fish were old and very slow growing. Initially too many were harvested, creating a population collapse in some stocks. In the 2000s allowable catches were much lower than the late 1980s peak of 54,000 tonnes.
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