Sentence examples for overfishing but from inspiring English sources

Fisheries Service officials said the changes would help limit overfishing, but some experts said they might have the opposite effect.

However, fishing is a complex economic activity, affected not just by overfishing but also by such factors as pollution, technology, financial factors and more.

Its collapse is not just the result of overfishing but also of mismanagement of the tidal rivers, according to Richard Cook, who has lived and fished on the Severn all his life and runs a smokery.

The authorities on Gibraltar said the reef would help prevent overfishing, but Spanish fishermen have condemned it, with the backing of the Spanish government, which has also called the artificial reef a threat to the environment.

(There is also "ecological overfishing," but that is something we must live with as long as we want to eat fish, Dr. Hilborn says. Fishing by definition alters the marine environment).

By the time he was 19, he had already begun to realize the need to address overfishing, but it would be several years before he developed a model that would not have a detrimental environmental impact.

The river is overfished, but Nile perch are common.

The service has labeled 124 species overfished, but the report focused on 44 for which there were enough data to draw conclusions on their rebuilding progress.

Consumers should tell retailers and environmental groups not to "red list" fish stocks that may be overfished but are being replenished.

The southern Pacific bluefin, which is caught off Australia, has also been overfished, but so far the northern Pacific bluefin, caught here, appears to be in better shape.

Stock assessments conducted in 2002 suggested that U.S. populations had not yet been overfished but that the catch rate was unsustainable, whereas assessments conducted in 2007 concluded that catch rates did not exceed sustainable levels and that populations were stable.