Sentence examples for overfishing to from inspiring English sources

In every ocean, rapacious trawlers, purse seiners and longliners are overfishing to an alarming degree.

Its goal is to raise awareness about the destruction taking place in our oceans – from toxic spills to huge plastic-bit vortices, from overfishing to bottom-dredging.

The American fishing industry welcomed NOAA's decision, while assigning most of the blame for overfishing to fishermen on the other side of the Atlantic.

The book is a guide to the many threats facing the oceans — from overfishing to oil spills to global warming — laced with advice about "what you can do" to help.

In 2002, California created no-fishing reserves that include about 20percentt of the 900 square miles of sanctuary that falls under the state's jurisdiction because of the threat posed by overfishing to a number of sedentary, bottom-dwelling species, including cowcod and rockfish.

MFCN claims that the plans would allow overfishing to go on and do too little to reduce bycatch.

But some environmentalists say that passion for bluefin may cause it to be overfished to the brink of extinction.

A report in February by the World Wildlife Fund WWFF) revealed that international waters were being overfished to the point that some species faced extinction, with illegal fishing and bottom trawling largely to blame.

By the 1920s Murray cod had been overfished to the point where large-scale commercial fishing operations were no longer feasible.

This species is susceptible to overfishing due to its low reproductive rate, and to habitat degradation due to its inshore habits.

Like other deepwater sharks, this species is thought to be highly susceptible to overfishing due to its slow reproductive rate.