overfishing
Speech parts
1. overfishing - Noun
2. overfishing - Verb
Meaning
overfishing
present participle of overfish
overfishing (uncountable)
Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
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2008 — Pacific Island nations imposed a series of measures aimed at halting overfishing.
Along with human-made changes in climate (see above), some of these extinctions could be caused by overhunting, overfishing, invasive species, or habitat loss.
Analysis of available data implicated overfishing and dredging in the disappearance.
At a time of unprecedented pressure on our seas, the project has kick-started a national movement to protect UK coastal waters from overfishing and loss of biodiversity.
Catches have fallen because of overfishing and the use of the harbour by oil support vessels, citation and so although still an important fishing port it is now eclipsed by the more northerly ports of Peterhead and Fraserburgh.
The United Nations estimates that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, at least in part because of damming, river pollution, diversion for industrial agriculture and overfishing.