Experts say that certain steps, like protection from excessive pollution and overfishing, could help the reefs make a comeback.
Reasons cited for such phase shifts include overfishing, excessive nutrient input, predation by Acanthaster plancii, and depletion of major functional groups like fish and echinoid grazers [1] [3].
Measures such as restoring parrotfish populations and protecting reefs from overfishing and excessive coastal pollution could help reefs recover.
Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, Montauk's commercial fisheries had been contracting, a casualty, depending on whom you asked, of rampant overfishing or excessive government regulation.
Marine protected area managers may focus on human stressors such as overfishing and excessive inputs of nutrients, sediments, and pollutants, both inside the protected area and on adjacent land and waters (Keller and others 2008).
This is a classic case of recruitment overfishing caused by excessive fishing of the parent stock, or a massive mortality, through fishing or habitat destruction, among the juvenile chambo (kasawala).
stocks were overfished, which, although excessive, pales in comparison to more than 80percentt for fisheries controlled by the European Union.
Traditionally, economics taught that common ownership of resources results in excessive exploitation, as when fishermen overfish a common pond.
A lack of political focus, bad management, overfishing and other forms of excessive use of marine resources are indeed detrimental to a sustainable future for the sea.
Overfishing is a recognised problem 450 species of fish live in the Adriatic Sea, including 120 species threatened by excessive commercial fishing, a problem exacerbated by pollution and global warming.
