Sentence examples for that overfishing from inspiring English sources

Some environmentalists contend that overfishing in recent decades has cut the population by 90 percent.

Manuel Barange, the UN FAO's fisheries director, told the Guardian that overfishing rates of around 60% in the Mediterranean and Black Sea regions were "particularly worrying".

New amendments to the federal Magnuson-Stevens Fisherequireervathat and Management Act require that overfishing be eliminated by 2010 for all domestic stocks.

Other researchers suspect that overfishing alone may not be responsible.

"It raises the possibility that overfishing can have a wide array of effects on species that we wouldn't expect to be impacted," he says.

Fisheries biologist Ellen Pikitch of the Pew Institute for Ocean Science in Miami, which funded the study, says the study "demonstrates that overfishing one species of fish, such as sardines, can profoundly alter an entire marine ecosystem in ways that may be difficult or impossible to reverse".

The commission would end subsidy programs that encourage overfishing.

Members of the World Trade Organization are now negotiating new trade rules to reduce the government subsidies that promote overfishing.

Mauritania has a fisheries and transparency initiative which is anchored on transparency and participation in an attempt to end secretive contracts that aid overfishing.

We win key victories for the oceans that stop overfishing, reduce bycatch, limit pollution, preserve habitat and protect wildlife.

Menhaden form a critical part of the ocean food web and that makes overfishing them a serious threat.