overfishing

overfishing

English

Verb

overfishing

1. present participle of overfish

Noun

overfishing (uncountable)

1. Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
   • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. […] It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.

Translations

excessive fishing

Dutch: overbevissing (nl) f Finnish: liikakalastus, ylikalastus French: surpêche (fr) f Greek: υπεραλίευση (el) f (yperalíefsi) Irish: ró-iascaireacht f Norwegian: Bokmål: overfiske n Polish: przełowienie (pl) n Portuguese: sobrepesca f Russian: чрезме́рный вы́лов m (črezmérnyj výlov) Swedish: utfiskning c, överfiske n Yoruba: ìpẹjalápajù

References

• Europe's seas are in a "serious state of decline" as a result of coastal development, overfishing and pollution from agriculture, warn scientists. (BBC news)

Further reading

• overfishing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia