occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans.
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Overfishing is a form of overexploitation in which fish stocks are depleted to unacceptable levels, regardless of water body size. Resource depletion, low biological growth rates, and critically low biomass levels (e.g. by critical depensation growth properties) result from overfishing. For example, overfishing of sharks has led to the upset of en...
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When harvesting of a population exceeds the population's ability to replenish itself
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(from the article `conservation`) Overharvesting, or overfishing in the case of fish and marine invertebrates, depletes some species to very low numbers and drives others to ... Overfishing is the greatest threat to the biodiversity of the world`s oceans, and contemporary information published for fisheries in the United ... [2 relat...
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fishing with a sufficiently high intensity to reduce the breeding stock levels to such an extent that they will no longer suppport a sufficient quantity of fish for sport or commercial harvest.
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When a fish stock is being fished at a fishing mortality rate that exceeds the overfishing threshold set by the National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Catching too many fish; fishing so much that the fish cannot sustain their population. The fish get fewer and fewer, until finally there are none to catch.
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In general, action of exerting a fishing pressure (fishing intensity) beyond agreed optimum level. A reduction of fishing pressure would, in the medium term, lead to an increase in the total catch.
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fishing a population faster than it can replace itself; the population decreases in size as a result
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occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. This can occur in any body of water from a pond to the oceans.
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Fishing at rates that exceed the sustained-yield cropping of fish species, resulting in a net population decline. For example, in the North Atlantic, herring has been fished to the verge of extinction, and the cod and haddock populations are severely depleted. In the developing world, use of huge factory ships, often by fisheries from industria...
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Refers to the rate of fishing. Overfishing occurs when the rate of removal from a stock is too high, i.e. more is being taken out than is being put in. A priority for the U.S. is ending overfishing so that all stocks can rebuild and be sustained at optimal levels.
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The rate/intensity of fishing reduces the breeding stock levels to such an extent that they will no longer support a sufficient quantity of fish for sport or commercial capture. i.e. overfishing occurs when a population of fish is caught faster than it can replenish itself through reproduction.
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