Sentence examples for over fishing of from inspiring English sources

For years, conservationists have warned about over fishing of large sharks in the northwestern Atlantic, as the demand for meat and fins, coupled with slow growth and reproduction rates of many species, has caused sharp declines in populations of hammerheads, duskies and other sharks.

Next to him sits Carlos Cervera, member of the directive council and the producer of a documentary titled México Pelágico, which is about Mexico's over fishing of sharks, ecotourism as a solution and Pelagic Life's history.

"We are proud to share that our efforts have helped put a stop to the inhumane slaughter of sharks," Oceana Board of Directors Chairman Keith Addis said, explaining to the audience that uncontrolled over fishing of sharks, specifically for the harvest of fins to satisfy a worldwide demand for shark fin soup, had created a significant natural imbalance in the ocean's food chain.

A major emerging problem is the increased fishing pressure from rising populations and over- fishing of preferred species.

The over-fishing of the oceans, the destruction of rain forests and the poisoning of the land are no less than acts of war against nature.

Their introduction into the lakes would not have been possible if not for the over-fishing of the Atlantic salmon and lake trout, or the alewife's ability to survive living only in freshwater, contrary to its natural anadromous life cycle.

The Massachusetts-based company repeatedly has argued that its fish, which are all female, sterile and currently raised only in land-locked facilities in Canada and Panama, actually could reduce pressure on wild stocks and prevent the over-fishing of Atlantic salmon.

Nevertheless, ornithologists have discovered that their numbers have plunged by more than 90% since the 1950s, with factors such as climate change and over-fishing of squid and octopus – the penguins' main source of food – being put forward as possible causes.

Over-fishing of North Atlantic Cod has caused them to mature smaller and younger than they did 40 years ago and similarly the grayling in Norwegian lakes.

Ragworms are commercially important as bait and as food sources for aquaculture, and there have been proposals to farm them in order to reduce over-fishing of their natural populations.

With the over-fishing of the world oceans, the Arctic has seemed like a new and unexploited area rich with  new supply to be harvested by industrial fleets far away from restrictions and regulators and again disconnected from traditional Arctic fishing interests and practices with the catch frozen at sea and taken away as soon as the holds are filled.