Sentence examples for fish decline from inspiring English sources

It wants bluefin conservation to be managed by regional fishery bodies and blames the fish decline on European countries for setting unrealistic quotas and ignoring illegal fishing.

Alex Matthiessen, Riverkeeper's president, attributed the fish decline largely to five power plants along the Hudson, including the Indian Point nuclear plant.

Competition for shelter and food can be identified as the main reasons for fish decline.

The study helps "establish a strong causal relationship between global warming and fish decline in Lake Tanganyika," says limnologist Dirk Verschuren of Ghent University in Belgium.

If stocks of fish decline, the amount of food available to other species can fall.

But the reintroduction of bald eagles to their historic habitat on the islands presents a new concern: bald eagles may see endangered foxes as a prey source, should their preferred marine prey of fish decline.

As the supply of wild fish declines relative to farmed fish, it will become a luxury commodity, he explains.

The study was among the first to look at historical data to determine that fish declines have already begun.

Green, S. J., Akins, J. L., Maljković, A. & Côté, I. M. Invasive lionfish drive Atlantic coral reef fish declines.

It could be the fish declined because of this – or that they moved away from the normal feeding grounds of the murre as they sought cooler waters.

Even though the reduction in fish populations lags nearly 20 years behind the coral loss, the consistency in fish declines across a wide range of species points to the loss of coral as the cause, they say.