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Commercial fishing has ecosystem effects on three fronts: overfishing, often of multiple fishery species; physical impacts on habitats caused by fishing gear such as trawls, seines, and dredges and fishing practices that use dynamite or cyanide; and incidental take of non-targeted species (by-catch) (Table  2).

Though much attention is paid to overfishing, "often our greatest impact is not on the species we target to catch but the species we did not intend to catch," Mr. Werner said.

Pollution and overfishing near reefs often leads to a reduced available food supply for the creatures.

From vanishing gorillas and rhinos due to hunting in Africa, to losses of orangutans as their rainforest habitats are cleared in Southeast Asia, to declining sharks and tuna around the world due to overfishing, we hear often how wild animal populations are threatened by human activity.

(For the same reason, overfishing is often blamed for increasing the likelihood of attacks on humans around the world).

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.

In comparison, the 2.8m metric tonnes of skipjack caught in 2014, not currently overfished and most often used for canned tuna, had an end final value of $17.7bn.

Molluscs, especially bivalves such as clams and mussels, have been an important food source since at least the advent of anatomically modern humans, and this has often resulted in overfishing.

Fishery management has historically been an inexact and reactionary discipline, often taking action only after a critical stock suffers overfishing or collapse.

Deforestation, land degradation and overfishing decrease the production of food, and increase the price of it, most often in places where calories are precious and cash is short.

Although individual nations were already protecting manta rays, the fish often migrate through unregulated waters, putting them at increased risk from overfishing.