Sentence examples for overfishing remained from inspiring English sources

Regrettably, overfishing remained a particular problem, which Congress addressed by amending the act again in 2006.

Despite stricter regulations and increased awareness of overfishing, many stocks remain in rapid decline.

Laffoley said the waters around Ascension were one of the few remaining places where the marine environment had not been irreversibly damaged by overfishing.

Non-indigenous crayfish may pose a greater threat to P. fluviatile than native crayfish, although the greatest threats remain pollution, overfishing and the draining of wetlands.

Andy Smith, of the FAO, reckons that even if the fleet's tonnage remained the same, its fishing capacity would increase by 3% a year.In the face of overfishing, governments have tried to control both the effort that goes into fishing and the catch.

Examples range from the Iberian lynx, of which only 600 remain, to the Brazilian guitar fish, whose numbers declined by 96percentt in the past four years because of overfishing.

According to the Pew Charitable Trusts, populations of lobster have not recovered from extensive harvesting in the 1980s and 1990s, which is now banned; the remaining fisheries are overfished.

Arguably, this isolation prevents overfishing.

Some governments even collude in overfishing.

But the fishermen risk rapidly overfishing.

In such circumstances, overfishing makes matters worse.