Sentence examples for decimate fish from inspiring English sources
Numerous studies have shown that the ash can leach toxic substances that can cause cancer, birth defects and other health problems in humans, and can decimate fish, bird and frog populations in and around ash dumps, causing developmental problems like tadpoles born without teeth, or fish with severe spinal deformities.
'Most Japanese don't like to talk about whaling, but they also believe the government line that whales are responsible for decimating fish stocks.
Five hundred years of fishing have decimated fish stocks in the North Atlantic and in the 1990s the government imposed a moratorium, devastating the island's economy in one fell swoop.
Deforestation and, some scientists contend, global climate change are making the Amazon region drier and hotter, decimating fish stocks in this area and imperiling the Kamayurá's very existence.
But the rage for eggs, coupled with increased industrial development and pollution, decimated fish populations.
She and others referred to the cormorant, a voracious bird that is new to the area and has been decimating fish stocks, especially the perch populations.
Sanibel Island's Gulf waters have rebounded from a chilly 47 degrees recorded during last week's unprecedented cold snap that decimated fish populations and threatened to do the same to endangered species of sea turtles in Florida.
This environmental and commercial calamity cost thousands of people their jobs and decimated fishing communities.
Still, such remarkable prosperity in one sector of a generally decimated fishing industry makes many people nervous.
It confirms smaller studies showing that overfishing has decimated certain fish species and gives a baseline estimate of earlier population numbers that should aid in conservation.
1. Lionfish (invasive) Indigenous to the Indo-Pacific area, the venomous-spine-bearing lionfish can wreak havoc on its nonnative ecosystems, often nearly decimating other fish populations (females can produce 2 million eggs per year, whereas an average salmon might lay 2,500).
