The phrase "as overfishing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to compare or relate a situation to the issue of overfishing, often in discussions about environmental concerns or resource management.
Example: "The decline in fish populations is alarming, as overfishing has severely impacted marine ecosystems."
Alternatives: "like overfishing" or "similar to overfishing".
Ultimately this is self-defeating, as overfishing eventually leads to lower catches, potentially irreversible declines in stocks and larger financial losses requiring even greater subsidies.
Just as overfishing impoverishes the life of the sea, the forgetting impoverishes our own lives.
Managers have allowed fishermen to catch cod faster than they can reproduce [known as "overfishing"] for over thirty years.
Coral reefs are currently threatened by a range of anthropogenic stressors including global climate change [1] and localised pressures such as overfishing [2] and pollution [3].
Coral reefs can often recover from bleaching when there is enough time between bleaching events, provided there aren't too many other stressors, such as overfishing and water pollution.
Throughout the bay, high mortality due to disease, as well as overfishing, had reduced the population to about 1percentt of 19th-century levels.
Marine species categorized as overfished could not be predicted from either fishery characteristics or life history characteristics in a PCA analysis of available data for fished species in the US.
In general, the agency defines a population as "overfished" if it falls below 20percentt of historic levels.
Reefs protected from overfishing, as well as coastal pollution, tourism and coastal development are more resilient to climate change, the report said.
Although the United States is a small player in the total harvest of Pacific bluefin tuna, we need the US government, led by the National Marine Fisheries Service, to take a leadership role in the international management of this species by calling for an immediate end to overfishing as well as the development of a meaningful rebuilding plan.
At least in America, fads in fish (current New York faves are sable and monkfish) are often driven as much by overfishing as they are by the quest for culinary novelty.
