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EPI scores range from 1–7; 7=highest level of overfishing. Overfishing has stripped many fisheries around the world of their stocks. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimated in a 2018 report that 33.1% of world fish stocks are subject to overfishing. [4] Significant overfishing has been observed in pre-industrial times.
Overfishing can be sustainable. [dubious – discuss] According to Hilborn, overfishing can be "a misallocation of societies' resources", but it does not necessarily threaten conservation or sustainability". [2] Overfishing is traditionally defined as harvesting so many fish that the yield is less than it would be if fishing were reduced. [2]
The fishing industry is struggling with environmental and welfare issues, including overfishing and occupational safety. [3] Additionally, the combined pressures of climate change, biodiversity loss and overfishing endanger the livelihoods and food security of a substantial portion of the global population. [4]
The overfishing list reflects species that have an unsustainably high harvest rate. NOAA also keeps a list of overfished stocks. Those are species that have a total population size that is too low.
Jack mackerel caught by a Chilean purse seiner Fishing down the food web. Overfishing is the removal of a species of fish (i.e. fishing) from a body of water at a rate greater than that the species can replenish its population naturally (i.e. the overexploitation of the fishery's existing fish stock), resulting in the species becoming increasingly underpopulated in that area.
[7] [8] The Sea Fish Industry Authority [7] describes the trawl as consisting of several components that assist the catch composition of the gear: The otter boards which herd the fish into the trawl path by dragging up a "sand cloud" that creates a barrier of escape. [9] The sweeps and bridles continue to herd the fish further into the trawl.
Trump issued a similar executive order in 2017, requiring government agencies to eliminate two rules for every new one created. Former President Joe Biden revoked the order in 2021, on his first ...
Illegal fisheries may overfish lobsters to receive large monetary benefits. In the mid-2000s, one case in which lobsters were being overfished illegally in South Africa to be imported to the United States was investigated. It was found that 30 percent of the lobsters being shipped to the United States were the result of illegal fishing. [20]