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Sentence Examples For instance, European overfishing of porbeagles in the northwest Atlantic during the 1960s caused that population to collapse. We are cutting down too many trees, overfishing the oceans, polluting the air, exhausting the soil. Like other elasmobranchs, skates are vulnerable to overfishing because they mature late. And there is no doubt that these boats are now overfishing the yellowfin tuna resource. Species currently threatened by overfishing include the Atlantic cod, the black sea bass, the red snapper, and some sharks. Many of these aquatic monsters are thought to be seriously threatened by overfishing and habitat destruction. The Australian government is trying to seed juveniles of sandfish, Holothuroidea scabra which were reduced by overfishing. Canada is the laughing stock of these countries because they can get away with overfishing here. Australia and New Zealand then decided to bring a claim against Japan under the Law of the Sea Convention for overfishing Southern Bluefin Tuna. It has been identified that parties were overfishing, overharvesting, bi-catching, and high grading their product. There's no problem of overuse or overgrazing or overfishing an idea. He said that we all blame the foreign overfishing. The minister would have us indulge in a time honoured political trick: the blame game. That may make monitoring and enforcement impractically costly. Rights-based fisheries are not the only answer to overfishing. Eutrophication, algal blooms, overfishing and pollution cannot be dealt with by one single country. Sawfish are threatened by overfishing, bycatch in fishing nets, and habitat loss. Since the stone crab is capable of regrowing its claws every 18 months, this break prevents overfishing of the briny delicacy. These negotiations are also making it possible to eliminate the subsidies that contribute to global overcapacity and overfishing. Caught primarily for their unfertilized eggs, which are processed to yield caviar, sturgeons and paddlefishes are particularly vulnerable to overfishing. It is a shame the member was muzzled and did not rise to vote in the House for the budget that contained money to fight overfishing. Atlantic cod in the Maritimes is also in decline, also because of overfishing. Show More Sentences This had led to diver harvesting of formerly unexploited stocks and concern about overfishing. We have selected the following as the most representative examples of misinformed debate and conclusions regarding overfishing. At European level measures are being developed to protect fish against overfishing and allow threatened species to recover. One of the most sought-after species in this trade is the humphead wrasse, large specimens of which have become rare through overfishing. His problem is not overfishing by foreign boats or pollution in the Thames estuary. During the late 19th century trawling had been banned in most of the Clyde to combat the effects of overfishing. Based on this, the risk of overfishing at the current level of harvest is low to moderate. It collapsed because of poor recoupment, because of environmental conditions, and also because of overfishing. In spite of all this, overfishing continues and fish resources are still declining. As a result, the incentive to avoid overfishing is lower in the case of industrial fishing. There is, of course, the warming of sea water to some extent, but we should also examine the probable causes of overfishing in the first place. The waters around Europe are being increasingly depleted of their marine resources because of overfishing. Other threats may include overfishing, habitat loss, and an invasive swim bladder parasite. Sharks are especially vulnerable to overfishing because they generally grow slowly, mature late and produce few young. Again, I would suggest that one of the biggest reasons for the decline in the offshore is foreign overfishing and of course our own overfishing. For a large number of vessels, it is only possible to operate profitably by overshooting their quotas and thereby engaging in overfishing. He stressed it was vital to avoid repeating the Canadian experience when years of overfishing exhausted cod stocks in the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. These catch rates are obviously necessary in order to avoid overfishing and unduly disrupting the marine food chain. They will tell you the cod are all gone because of the seals eating too many of them or because of foreign overfishing. Furthermore, we reached agreement on curbing overfishing, dangerous chemicals, and made multinationals accountable for destructive practices. Show More Sentences Humberto Leon and Carol Lim used their spring collection to send a message about the perils of overfishing. The issue of overfishing of straddling stocks is one on which many groups and individuals have a variety of strongly held views. First, lobsters are a natural resource that can be exhausted by overfishing. In these circumstances, any overfishing by this fleet would pose a serious threat to the conservation of the bluefin tuna stock. Most demersal stocks show clear signs of overfishing and the current situation is not sustainable. They provided reasons such as overfishing by factory ships and referred to images of large trawlers scooping up nets of fish. Most participants would continually dwell on the notion that overfishing meant foreign boats fishing illegally within Canadian waters. They were more sceptical of how overfishing was seen to be a problem for the rest of the country. This way, aquafarms of organism requiring animal protein paradoxically aggravate the problem of overfishing. The sustainable management of fisheries has thus become increasingly urgent, as the demand for both subsistence and commercial fishery products have raised the incidence of overfishing. Herring, cod and plaice fisheries may soon face the same plight as mackerel fishing, which ceased in the 1970s due to overfishing. Japanese demand for sea urchin corals has raised concerns about overfishing. There are anecdotal reports of rivers where gaspereau runs have disappeared after periods of intensive fishing, but the extent to which overfishing may have caused local extirpations is unknown. A 1997 study reports that plaice are endangered in Canada due to overfishing. We cannot continue this lily-livered approach with respect to overfishing. As ecosystems, estuaries are under threat from human activities such as pollution and overfishing. Chesapeake Bay once had a flourishing oyster population that has been almost wiped out by overfishing. The main cause is human disturbance, most notably eutrophication, mechanical destruction of habitat, and overfishing. Increasing demands on wild fisheries by commercial fishing operations have caused widespread overfishing. So Europe is constantly looking for some collective actions to prevent overfishing. Show More Sentences Toothfish are commercially fished, and overfishing has reduced toothfish populations. This is a direct result of overfishing to supply northern Europe's taste for rock salmon, saumonette or zeepaling. Some also thought that the Spanish government might have good intentions but that other countries were ignoring the rules and polluting and overfishing. There can be a viable commercial cod fishery for the inshore fishermen with limitations placed on trawlers and severe consequences for overfishing and the disregard of Canadian laws. The unfortunate thing is that the balance between the seal population and the cod stocks has been upset over the years by foreign overfishing, most of it totally ignored by the federal government. But the most valuable fisheries are the trawlers and artisanal boats fishing valuable bottom fish, octopus and various crustacians, but overfishing and pollution are taking their toll. In May 2008, the Department of Planning and Natural Resources announced that it would enforce a ban on fishermen using gill and trammel nets, as the nets were seen as contributing to overfishing. A number of resolutions were put forward including mesh size, directed fisheries for species at risk which is a huge problem, overfishing, misreporting as well as a number of other issues. There is global warming, and acidification of the oceans, but also overfishing with unrecoverable damage to fishing species and many coastal areas are in danger of floods by the rising of the ocean level. But these species are especially vulnerable to overfishing, since they are long-lived, slow to reach sexual maturity, have long gestation periods and a low fertility rate. When thinking of overfishing, participants imagined trawlers with dragnets, vast amounts of wasted by-catch, fish getting more expensive, and an empty sea. Unfortunately, the department mismanaged the resource and allowed overfishing. For example, severe overfishing may cause increases in diversity indices affected by the evenness with which species occur, suggesting incorrectly that the overfishing has been good for biodiversity. One market trader has given up fish and taken to selling chicken instead. The scarcity is the result of overfishing, and it affects both poor and rich countries, polluted and unpolluted. Here you can sample fresh local abalone, an edible sea snail in a mother-ofpearl shell rendered almost extinct by overfishing. Various hypotheses have been posited to explain its disappearance, including overfishing, construction of the waterway, pollution, and the destruction of spawning grounds. While centered on the overfishing issue, these did bring forth similar views about fish, fishing and fishermen that exist also in Canada and in Newfoundland and Labrador. It might make more sense in the future to set up some intensive one-on-one interviews with key stakeholders to get their unvarnished opinions on DFO's latest actions dealing with overfishing. The sprat is a short-lived species. Consequently the catch limitations should be implemented as soon as possible, in order to avoid delays which could lead to overfishing of the stock. Our government has made the fight against overfishing a priority, and I am heartened to work with a group of Ministers who share Canada's commitment to bring an end to illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities. Show More Sentences Over and over again, participants made derisive remarks about how eight citations seemed like nothing to them and they wondered how many other vessels were getting away with overfishing. Launched in 1982, it has certainly helped avoid conflicts at sea between national interests, but has at best papered over the cracks when it comes to overfishing. It was suggested a number of times that if we in Canada want to take the lead on international overfishing, we had better make sure our own record is unblemished. Both the commercial and recreational conch fisheries in Florida are closed due to overfishing, and stocks have been slow to recover, partly due to pollution and habitat loss. In 1995, Brian Tobin, the premier of Newfoundland, had a Spanish trawler seized in response to that country's overfishing of Canada's already-depleted turbot stocks. I did say in my statement about the decline of the great Greenland cod fishery that, sure, it was not only the temperature, it was aided and abetted by overfishing. He was responsible for introducing Canada's 320-km territorial limit and for introducing fishery management and conservation to the industry to curb overfishing and overexpansion. The economic drivers of overfishing are simply those factors that determine whether a profit will be realised and the extent to which it can be maximised in the context of the existing management regime. The result is that for every boat that unloads its catch, two others are waiting in the harbour. The biggest threat to the industry is its own rapacious overfishing. Although overfishing is almost certainly the proximate cause of the decline of Sakinaw sockeye, other factors probably contribute by eroding the population's productivity. The third EU proposal concerns blue shark and shortfin mako shark, which though less at risk than the species covered by the other two proposals, remain highly vulnerable to overfishing. Summary: Causes for the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon may include waste from pulp mills, such as sodium hydroxide and powdered tree bark, and overfishing by First Nations. Two groups of sockeye that spawn in lakes near Vancouver are also listed as endangered. Scientists and environmentalists agree that the causes of the decline include overfishing and the destruction of spawning habitats. Groundfish, such as cod, haddock, redfish and several species of flatfish, are most affected by pressure from overfishing, and ground fish stocks off the east coast, especially cod, have nearly collapsed. But if overfishing continues it could hurt poor countries, because their people rely more heavily on fish for protein than do rich-world dwellers. Fish, it would seem, are proving Malthus right. The general public is receptive to messages about progress, what other countries are doing, who Canada's allies are and what kinds of penalties can be meted out to overfishing offenders. Because technology lets fishermen fish with less effort, it disguises just how fast the stocks are depleting. Fishermen generally understand the risks of overfishing. The supply is limited and overfishing must be avoided. This makes them particularly vulnerable to overfishing. One regional organization pointed out that although the measures that it had adopted in relation to some stocks had been successful, measures for other stocks had not prevented overfishing. Show More Sentences Several other species in this trade are also vulnerable to overfishing. The ability of a fishery to recover from overfishing depends on whether the ecosystem's conditions are suitable for the recovery. Gathering as many fish as possible may seem like a profitable practice, but overfishing has serious consequences. Examples of overfishing exist in areas such as the North Sea, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland and the East China Sea. In these locations, overfishing has not only proved disastrous to fish stocks but also to the fishing communities relying on the harvest. Ecosystem overfishing occurs when the balance of the ecosystem is altered by overfishing. The notion of overfishing hinges on what is meant by an acceptable level of fishing. Seafood species that grow quickly and breed young, such as anchovies and sardines, are much more resistant to overfishing. Creating awareness of overfishing and effective measures can be effective in fisheries management. This leads to extensive lobbying that can block or water down government policies intended to prevent overfishing. In waters that are the subject of territorial disputes, countries may actively encourage overfishing. It can prove difficult to regulate this kind of overfishing, especially for weak governments. Though they are also currently endangered in Canada due to overfishing, the Canadian government believes the species is abundant. Around year 2000, owing to overfishing and high demand, lobster aquaculture expanded. Bycatch contributes to fishery decline and is a mechanism of overfishing for unintentional catch. The overfishing of krill, which plays a large role in the Antarctic ecosystem, led officials to enact regulations on fishing. Significant wild fisheries have collapsed or are in danger of collapsing, due to overfishing and pollution. In the recent past the European market for spiny dogfish has increased dramatically, which led to the overfishing and decline of the species. According to any reasonable analysis, the collapse was first due to massive overfishing. Accusations of illegal overfishing by the French and Spanish fleets is a source of local friction. Show More Sentences Increased demands on wild fisheries by commercial fishing has caused widespread overfishing. Sustained overfishing can lead to critical depensation, where the fish population is no longer able to sustain itself. Some forms of overfishing, for example the overfishing of sharks, has led to the upset of entire marine ecosystems. Jellyfish populations may be expanding globally as a result of overfishing of their natural predators and the availability of excessive nutrients due to land runoff. Seabirds are also thought to suffer when overfishing occurs. For example, catches in the rich fishing grounds of the Okhotsk Sea off the Russian coast have been reduced by at least half since the 1990s as a result of overfishing. However, the data vary wildly according to the species being studied, and the Gulf's ability to recuperate after years of overfishing remains uncertain. He said they may have boomed because of overfishing, which removed many of its natural predators, and siltation, which brings nutrients to the sea that encourage their growth. In most places, the Pacific oyster was introduced to replace the native oyster stocks which were seriously dwindling due to overfishing or disease. Added to the problem has been overfishing of the Scottish sandeel, further reducing the numbers of this dietary staple for puffins and other local seabirds. In particular, the overfishing of the western Atlantic Ocean from the earliest days of European colonisation of the Americas has been well documented. Throughout this extensive range, almost all species are highly threatened or vulnerable to extinction due to a combination of habitat destruction, overfishing, and pollution. As a result, skates are vulnerable to overfishing and appear to have been overfished and are suffering reduced population levels in many parts of the world. Growth overfishing occurs when fish are harvested at an average size that is smaller than the size that would produce the maximum yield per recruit. Another possible factor is reduction of sharks from overfishing. In recent decades, overfishing has left many fisheries unproductive, disturbing marine food chain dynamics and costing jobs in the fishing industry. Many regulatory measures are available for controlling overfishing. Sustainable seafood is a movement that has gained momentum as more people become aware of overfishing and environmentally destructive fishing methods. In the northwest Pacific, the overfishing of Alaska pollock and Japanese sardine led fishers to focus on Japanese anchovy, largehead hairtail, and squid. Increased farming of large predators, such as salmon and tuna, has led to overfishing of prey fish, including anchoveta and herring, which commonly are used as fishmeal. Show More Sentences The two-day forum will discuss ways to come up with appropriate strategies to address the overfishing of bigeye tuna and the threat faced by yellow fin tuna in the region. Strict regulation of the catch was introduced in the Soviet Union in 1976 in order to prevent overfishing of the sexually mature sturgeons in the river. Water pollution is a problem in the Gulf of California, but the more immediate concerns are overfishing and bottom trawling, which destroys eelgrass beds and shellfish. Examples from Classical Literature The lobster is highly esteemed as food, and is rapidly disappearing from our coasts as the result of overfishing. Increased demand causes a severe drain upon the shellfish beds, which soon leads to overfishing. This idea has caused great harm to the shellfisheries, stimulating men to wreck certain localities by overfishing. On the other hand, the shallow-water grounds are rapidly becoming barren from overfishing. The industry as a whole is gradually declining, as overfishing has made it impossible for the natural supply to perpetuate itself. Severe climatic conditions and overfishing by man are the direct causes of this decline. Its destruction was due to overfishing and the utilization of the shells for lime, which soon destroyed the natural bar. Melongenid whelks generally grow slowly and mature late in life, a characteristic that can make them vulnerable to overfishing as fishing pressure increases. Find more words! 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