Definition of Overfished. Meaning of Overfished. Synonyms of Overfished

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Definition of Overfished

Overfish
Overfish O`ver*fish", v. t. To fish to excess.

Meaning of Overfished from wikipedia

- depletion of the original fish stock. For example, once trout have been overfished, carp might exploit the change in competitive equilibria and take over...
- are overfished. There were 267 major stocks, that is, stocks with at least 200,000 pounds (91,000 kg) in annual landings. Of these, 40 were overfished, 147...
- important species in the 1990s but is now considered overfished. Groupers and snappers are overfished and northern brown shrimp and American cupped oyster...
- overfishing but the spawning stock biom**** is overfished. IOTC judges albacore in the Indian Ocean are not overfished, but maintaining or increasing effort in...
- nonscombroid mackerel, fished as heavily as chub mackerel. The species has been overfished, and its fishery may now be in danger of collapsing. Smaller mackerel...
- species and several thousand tonnes are caught each year. It was considered overfished and subject to overfishing for decades, but catches were reduced in 2011...
- all overfished. In April 2009, no stock of skipjack tuna (which makes up roughly 60% of all tuna fished worldwide) was considered to be overfished. The...
- Atlantic cod stocks severely overfished leading to abrupt collapse...
- Vietnam, supporting over 55 million people. A key fish species which is overfished, the Piramutaba catfish, Brachyplatystoma vaillantii, migrates more than...
- fishery-independent data. Overfished refers to the number of fish in the stock. Typically a stock is described as being overfished when current biom**** of...