Quotas on North Atlantic Cod Fishing
The management of cod stocks in the North Atlantic serves as a real-world example of government intervention solving a social dilemma. To prevent the overexploitation and potential collapse of the fishery—a classic 'Tragedy of the Commons'—governments successfully imposed quotas to limit the total catch.
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