Sentence examples for overfishing mainly from inspiring English sources
The EU divides this among its members in December (when the big row will be about plans to slash cod quotas).The population of bluefin tuna is crashing after decades of overfishing, mainly by Europeans.
The discovery is a step towards the restoration of herring stocks that were wiped out, mainly by overfishing in the 1960s and 1970s.
The North Atlantic eel, as much a cult as food in the Netherlands, is disappearing, mainly the result of overfishing as fresh markets for elvers, or baby eels, open in Japan and China.
Based on this, they estimate that one in four of these species are threatened with extinction, mainly as a result of overfishing.
Based on this, Dulvy et al. estimate that one in four of these species are threatened with extinction, mainly as a result of overfishing.
Arguably, this isolation prevents overfishing.
Who is responsible for overfishing?
For us it became overfishing.
That has led to overfishing.
Some governments even collude in overfishing.
But the fishermen risk rapidly overfishing.
