Sentence examples for but overfishing from inspiring English sources

Previously there was abundant fishing along the east and west coasts, but overfishing caused the industry to decline, and it has been replaced by freshwater fish cultivation.

Squid are abundant in the waters surrounding the islands, but overfishing became an issue in the 1990s, and measures were taken to correct the problem.

Seafood-processing plants are located in Guaymas, but overfishing and a lack of fresh water from the Colorado River have caused a decline in its fisheries, especially for shrimp.

Fishing has been a major source of income in the coastal regions of West Africa but overfishing is still a huge problem.

But overfishing is not so much the inevitable result of population growth as the outcome of perverse policies.

Westport was also once an important fishing port, but overfishing of the Westport River and the bay took a drastic toll.

It may be impossible to bring a lost ecosystem back exactly the way it was, but if overfishing stops, marine communities should regain a stable mix of predators and prey alike.

Its extensive coral reef system, an attraction to foreign scuba divers in the 1970s and '80s, has largely died off — partly from sedimentation and climate change, but mostly from overfishing.

In the early 1990s, Greene had wanted to become a fisherman, but years of overfishing in the Bay of Fundy had left cod stocks heavily depleted.

Fish populations around the world have been decimated by overfishing — but new research suggests that this could soon change if the world got its act together.

Small-scale fishing generates important income in BCS, but due to overfishing, landings and profits are dwindling [24].