Overfished
"Overfished" in a Sentence (5 examples)
The report said 90 percent of the country's seabirds and about a quarter of its marine mammals are threatened with extinction, and that 16 percent of New Zealand's fish stocks had been overfished.
About a third of the world's commercial fish populations are overfished, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
More recently, researchers have reported that cod, overfished for decades off New England and the Canadian Maritime Provinces, have begun reproducing at younger ages and smaller sizes.
The Gulf of Thailand became more overfished than ever, causing acrimonious conflicts between domestic artisanal and large-scale fishers.
It is the most overfished of any hole that I know, this Nine Mile Hole.
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