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Overfishing of large predatory fish populations has resulted in lasting restructurings of entire marine food webs worldwide, with serious socio- economic consequences. Fortunately, some degraded ecosystems show signs of recovery. A key challenge for ecosystem management is to anticipate the degree to which recovery is possible. By applying a statistical food-web model, using the Baltic Sea as a case study, we show that under current…