Crossword clues for overfish
overfish
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overfish \O`ver*fish"\, v. t.
To fish to excess.
Specifically: To fish so much that the numbers of fish remaining are substantially reduced.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To fish excessively. 2 To fish in excess so as to substantially reduce over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an are
Usage examples of "overfish".
If we binge on our work, we will overfish our creative trout pond, and then it will take longer for us to work as we struggle to find the images that we seek.
While marine life is poorer than it ought to be in areas that have been overfished, in some naturally impoverished waters there is far more life than there ought to be.
But the exiles would have been wise to listen to Plutarch, and, had I enjoyed the luck of Mary Stuart, when Loch Leven was not overfished, when the trout were uneducated, never would I have plunged into politics again.
It had been so overfished during the last century that it was now closed by international treaty to allow the native marine species, especially pollock, to repopulate.
Remember how overfishing was allowed to decimate four prized saltwater speciessnook, redfish, king mackerel and Spanish mackerelbefore emergency measures were taken.
Recently, their numbers had been dwindlingthey were victims of overfishing and pollution from PCBs, pesticides and phosphates from agricultural runoff and many of the survivors were manifesting tumors, ulcers and even bizarre genetic mutations.
Gradually, though, overfishing and fertilizer runoff had reduced their numbers.
Part of it was due to overfishing by commercial enterprises and sport fishermen, but mostly it was due to habitat destruction.
We lost some species, mostly from overfishing and from the dumping of pollutants and washed-off topsoil in the shallow waters around the coastlines.
Overpopulation, over- development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction.
Peter emerged, clean and dressed in one of the stylish local costumes that Jane had had delivered for him, Wang-mu was engrossed in an account of a trial of some people accused of overfishing a lush coldwater region a few hundred kilometers from the city they were in.
He told how the Alaskan king crab industry, once in danger of being fatally overfished, had been managed to the point where it could now support the hungry fleets of six nations and would still increase year by year.