Overfishing in a sentence

Mawallil also noted that these environments face various threats, including overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction, and the impacts of climate change such as rising sea levels and increasing ocean temperatures.

Overfishing removes animal stocks that would naturally die and sink, too, feeding populations of deep sea creatures.

Over the past decade, the ocean has lost over 13.5% of its coral cover, largely due to climate change, disease, overfishing, pollution, and other human impacts.

So there’s overfishing in this area and the number of conches are getting smaller and smaller.

Their primary threat is overfishing.

The slot limit change serves as the most recent effort to reduce overfishing and promote population growth of the Atlantic Striped Bass.

This logic drives deforestation within the Amazon and Southeast Asia and overfishing throughout oceans.

Via this method, they land their catch using single-line hooks and only to order, ensuring there’s no overfishing and minimal harm to the fish.

Every year, fishing in major grounds is banned for three months to conserve various marine species and address overfishing and climate change concerns.

Growing global demand for these essential nutrients is said to be contributing to unsustainable overfishing, with 16 million tonnes of wild-caught oceanic fish annually.

Overfishing is an escalating problem, with a recent report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimating there is a between the demand for seafood and sources of supply.

Pedro Bank, regarded as Jamaica's largest fishing ground, suffered from overfishing, which resulting in a decline in the capture of marine life, particularly lobster and conch.

Vermilion snapper were threatened by overfishing in 2008 but bounced back after catch limits and seasonal closures were enforced.

At a time of unprecedented pressure on our seas, the project has kick-started a national movement to protect UK coastal waters from overfishing and loss of biodiversity.

Entertainment Tonight that the shirt was actually for a Marlin Lives Matter organization to cease white and blue marlin overfishing, which used both “white lives matter” and “blue lives matter” slogans.

Its actions have made it easier to drill in wildlife refuges, slashed regulations meant to combat overfishing, and narrowed safety assessment requirements for potentially toxic chemicals.

The United Nations estimates that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, at least in part because of damming, river pollution, diversion for industrial agriculture and overfishing.

With more than 200 victories that stop overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and killing of threatened species like turtles and sharks, Oceana’s campaigns are delivering results.

According to World Wildlife Fund (WWF), overfishing and illegal fishing of sharks for their fins is depleting shark populations worldwide.

At present, negotiations are under way at the WTO which aim to prohibit the use of government subsidies for fishers who engage in illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing, as well as government support leads to overcapacity and overfishing.