Other factors are also in play, with overfishing killing off the lobster's natural predators and herring bait used in lobster traps being stolen by younger members of the species too small to be caught.
We are overfishing the ocean, killing fish faster than they can make babies.
Sharks risk being driven to extinction due to overfishing, with almost 100 million killed each year, scientists have warned.
For example, say: "Overfishing is bad, because it kills off lots of species.
In the Caribbean, high water temperatures, disease outbreaks, overfishing and other afflictions have already killed 80 percent of the region's coral, reducing many reefs to seaweed and rubble.
It is estimated that each year, around 100 million sharks from many species are killed for the fin trade, overfishing, as bycatch on longlines, in beach nets, and from other unsustainable practices.
These beautiful creatures, that enhance the lives of everyone who has seen them leaping and playing the sea, are being caught and killed in fishing nets, starved to death by overfishing, mashed up by propellers and driven out of their feeding grounds by a cacophony of underwater noise from boats.
"Overfishing, overfishing, they never shut it down," he said of the industry as a whole.
In 1990, after overfishing nearly extinguished the Goliath from Florida waters, government officials outlawed killing the slow-growing fish, which can reach 40 years old and 450 kilograms.
