Sentence examples for overfishing as from inspiring English sources

Reefs protected from overfishing, as well as coastal pollution, tourism and coastal development are more resilient to climate change, the report said.

However, the past 30 years have seen increasing concerns about domestic overfishing, as well as habitat degradation and ocean pollution.

But over the past 30 years, domestic overfishing, as well as habitat degradation and ocean pollution, have significantly eroded U.S. fish stocks.

Although the United States is a small player in the total harvest of Pacific bluefin tuna, we need the US government, led by the National Marine Fisheries Service, to take a leadership role in the international management of this species by calling for an immediate end to overfishing as well as the development of a meaningful rebuilding plan.

Local anthropogenic stressors such as direct degradation or destruction of habitat, eutrophication, sedimentation, and overfishing, as well as episodic disturbances from outbreaks of urchins, storms, disease and direct harvesting are often evident as proximate triggers of these declines [18], [19], [21], [22].

He cited Britain's mid-20th century enthusiasm for overfishing as an example of the country's exploitative zeal.

According to commission figures this year, 63 percent of stocks in Europe's Atlantic waters are overfished, as are 82 percent of its Mediterranean stocks and two-thirds of its Baltic stocks.

The causes for this pattern are uncertain but may be related to a prevalence of thermophilic species in sea urchins [75], latitudinal differences in recruitment success [76] [77] and salinity tolerance [78], competitive and predatory interactions [79] [80], relief from predation due to overfishing [27], as well as high adaptability of sea urchins to environmental stress [81] [82].

According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, red snapper is overfished, as is skate, a fish that Mr. Bittman also mentioned.

This degradation is due to a combination of impacts, including damage by hurricanes, diseases, bleaching, pollution, sediment runoff, overfishing, climate change, as well as more directly through boat anchoring, setting of fish traps, groundings of ships, dredging activities, collecting of corals, and dynamite fishing.

This is the problem with single-issue approaches to assessing the threats to the ocean, as in the case of an op-ed by Ray Hilborn in the New York Times last week suggesting that overfishing is not as much of a problem as it's been made out to be.