Northeast Atlantic and the adjacent waters of the Arctic extending from Norway to Great Britain and Iceland constitute the second major fishing region. This region is known for the world’s best cod-fishing grounds.
Around 1750, at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the world population was 550 million. World population exploded in the eighteenth century after the Industrial Revolution. Human population increased more than ten times in the past 500 hundred years. In the twentieth century itself the population has increased four times. Nearly 80 million people are added each year.
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