Sentence examples for then overfishing from inspiring English sources

But the 1938 hurricane wiped out about a third of the bay's oysters and clams and then overfishing and pollution continued to deplete local waters.

Again, the timing is likely to be key – the European Commission had hoped to move to a maximum sustainable yield policy from 2015, but under the compromise agreement it could be 2020, which many experts say is too late to preserve fish stocks that by then will have been gravely depleted after decades of overfishing.

These so-called 'seiners' fish in an unsustainable manner, overfishing tuna stocks while also catching and then throwing overboard many other fish.

Each model was then classified as representing an overfished or sustainably fished ecosystem based on the ecosystem overfishing definition sensu Murawski [12].

So it was, 400 years before overfishing, globalization, and aquaculture altered the bounties of the sea.

Some sharks do not reach maturity until they are more than 10 years old and even then have only a few pups, so the stock cannot reproduce rapidly enough to make up for overfishing.

Every now and then environmentalists would show up, carrying signs warning about the global decline of shark populations from overfishing and calling for an end to the slaughter.

Since then the global catch has declined by 1.2 million tons per year -- three times the rate officials believe -- because of overfishing.

Arguably, this isolation prevents overfishing.

And then they realized that they didn't even know where those spawning grounds were, because they had been wiped out in the twenties and thirties by overfishing.

Some governments even collude in overfishing.