Sentence examples for human overfishing from inspiring English sources

But they have also been forced inland because of human overfishing.

Then the abalone populations crashed after the otters' return and years of human overfishing.

OO Fisheries Chief Says Some EU Cod Stocks Facing Collapse - both human overfishing and now climate change, through rising temperatures and acidification, threaten oceanic fish.

The sudden explosion of life around Titanic may be a result of an increased amount of nutrients falling from the surface, possibly a result of human overfishing eliminating fish that would otherwise have consumed the nutrients.

Fish were the most threatened, in large part because of human overfishing: Over a third of fish consumed by humans measured by the Living Planet Index are under threat of extinction, with one family of tuna and mackerel falling 74percentt between 1970 and 2010.

Such events are becoming increasingly common as humans overfish, overgraze, and alter the climate.

Jellyfish Take Over As Humans Overfish And Change Climate notes Tim Flannery at the New York Review of Books.

The ecology of the Yangtze is struggling against an onslaught of human activity: overfishing, including electro-fishing, which that stuns and kills the porpoise; sand dredging; heavy pollution; dams that change the water temperature and affect breeding patterns and block migration; and injury or death from ever-increasing river traffic, according to multiple reports in the Chinese media.

"But you have situations like antibiotic resistance, and systems that have been exploited by humans, like overfishing, where you get incredibly rapid changes.

Humans have overfished nearly every fishery.

It conveniently double binds the fishing industry (who benefit from the contracts given during shark culls) by tying human suffering to overfishing.