Traditionally, fisheries management has focused on protecting resources from overexploitation or on the recovery of already overexploited stocks.
Fisheries are already stressed by overexploitation and pollution.
But these fisheries have proved highly vulnerable to overexploitation.
In part the message said: "We see the signs of overexploitation.
Its global population is estimated to have declined by 99.99% over the past 40 years due to overexploitation.
The rapid growth of fishing has required readjusting fishing quotas to protect the fishing banks from overexploitation.
Decades of overexploitation in north Africa (pdf), where groundwater is more abundant, have left many sedimentary aquifers dangerously depleted and in some cases degraded by saltwater intrusion.
Agriculture and the overexploitation of plants and animal species are significantly greater threats to biodiversity than climate change, new analysis shows.
But the fishing deal has received growing criticism from researchers and environmentalists who have accused the EU of exporting its problem of overexploitation to African waters.
Environmental groups have long been worried about the overexploitation of krill, a crustacean vital to its ecosystem, as well as the longevity of the toothfish.
The purpose of these laws is to prevent the illegal trade in fossil specimens so as to protect often fragile natural history resources from overexploitation and vandalism.
