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Schematic illustration of the effects of increasing exploitation across a fish community (reproduced from Worm et al.,
2009). Here MMSY is defined as the maximum yield that can be extracted from the community in the long term, even though this is associated with a significant number of collapsed species. L
max, Maximum fish length. (
) Total catch, (
) Total biomass, (
) Mean Lmax and (
) Collapsed species
