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Sharks risk being driven to extinction due to overfishing, with almost 100 million killed each year, scientists have warned.

African Union calls to fight overfishing with joint navy patrols and co-operation between fisheries have been ignored.

As the coalition points out, Europe is supporting overfishing with high quotas and direct subsidies for modernizing the European fishing fleet.

These include the Darwin Mounds, large coral formations which were discovered in 1998 and betray the impact of overfishing, with deep scars caused by trawlers dragging nets over the fragile structures.

He noted that one by one, other bay fisheries have failed under the pressures of relentless pollution from the mainland and overfishing, with oysters, for example, "barely a shadow" of their heyday harvests.

The common thresher population rapidly collapsed from overfishing, with landings decreasing to less than 300 metric tons a year by the late 1980s and larger size classes disappearing from the population.

Still, as with other aquaculture operations, about 30 percent of Local Ocean's feed is from ocean species like menhaden and anchovies, which critics of aquaculture say are threatened with overfishing for feed.

Other factors are also in play, with overfishing killing off the lobster's natural predators and herring bait used in lobster traps being stolen by younger members of the species too small to be caught.

Arne Fuglvog, a former fisheries advisor to Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski and commercial fisherman, who stepped down when he was charged with overfishing in Alaska waters in 2011, has reportedly found a new vocation -- lobbyist for commercial fishing companies.

In the Caribbean, a combination of release from top-down control due to loss of the sea urchin Diadema antillarum to disease, coupled with overfishing, eutrophication, and destruction of the physical structure of the reef due to hurricanes, led to nearly complete loss of Caribbean corals [3], [11] [13].

It is estimated that 75% of EU stocks are overfished, compared with a 25% average worldwide.