Wow. Thank you very much for sharing!

I was honestly sort of surprised people didn't know. The collapse of the fishery was so completely devastating to the east coast (where I was born) economy that it's just sort of a given back home that lobster prices are awful, your potatoes are going to rot and your kids are going to move (like I did).

Yes. It is probably one of he most salient examples of overfishing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Atlantic_northw...

It's a fascinating story. The collapse happened suddenly, in the early 1990s, and the stock of Atlantic cod has yet to recover.