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And with the seas increasingly depleted by overfishing, much of the world is turning to China's land-based fish farms to meet growing demand.

In the past two decades, the beluga's population has dropped by 90% as a result of overfishing, much of it illegal.The tough stance taken by CITES has pleased such groups as Caviar Emptor, based in Washington, DC, which has been campaigning for several years for greater protection for sturgeon in the Caspian Sea a body of water that is the source of about 90% of the trade in caviar.

Conservationists say the bluefin tuna is threatened by overfishing, and much deeper cuts are needed.

The fishery is widely dispersed around the British and Irish coasts, and C. pagurus is thought to be overfished across much of this area.

It was an expensive fabric and overfishing has much reduced populations of the pen shell.

At least in America, fads in fish (current New York faves are sable and monkfish) are often driven as much by overfishing as they are by the quest for culinary novelty.

Although marine reserves are gaining popularity as a means to protect areas of the sea from overfishing and other human activities, much less than 1% of ocean waters is protected worldwide.

The migration of fishing fleets is as much a product of overfishing down south as of climate change.In 2010 the Arctic Council published an index of trends in Arctic vertebrate populations, using data for 306 species (35% of the total) gathered between 1970 and 2004.

It is edible and highly regarded as food, but is now rare over much of its range due to overfishing.

Humanity has expanded so much ― clear-cutting rainforests, poaching big game, overfishing the seas ― that it now requires the equivalent of "1.6 earths to provide the goods and services we use each year," the report says.

Not only have we "upset the balance of the atmosphere," we're also making too much trash, polluting the poles, drying out forests, overgrazing, overhunting, overfishing, overdeveloping and creating conditions that drown newborn caribou calves.