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  2. Destructive fishing practices - Wikipedia

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    Destructive fishing practices are fishing practices which easily result in irreversible damage to habitats and the sustainability of the fishery ecosystems.Such damages can be caused by direct physical destruction of the underwater landform and vegetation, overfishing (especially of keystone species), indiscriminate killing/maiming of aquatic life, disruption of vital reproductive cycles, and ...

  3. Blast fishing - Wikipedia

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    Blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This often illegal practice is extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem , as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs ) that supports ...

  4. Unsustainable fishing methods - Wikipedia

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    Commercial fishing showing the abundance of fish species caught using a trawling method. Unsustainable fishing methods refers to the use of various fishing methods to capture or harvest fish at a rate that is unsustainable for fish populations. [1] These methods facilitate destructive fishing practices that damage ocean ecosystems, resulting in ...

  5. Public support ban of destructive fishing method in marine ...

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    Bottom trawling uses nets that can be as large as a football field that can damage marine habitats, campaigners say.

  6. Fishing techniques - Wikipedia

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    Among the major fishing techniques bottom trawling is a destructive one. Fishing techniques are methods for catching fish. The term may also be applied to methods for catching other aquatic animals such as molluscs ( shellfish , squid , octopus ) and edible marine invertebrates .

  7. Greenpeace drops boulders onto seabed to block ‘destructive ...

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    Greenpeace has placed a number of boulders on an area of seabed off the coast of Cornwall in an attempt to block what it describes as “destructive industrial fishing”.

  8. Environmental impact of fishing - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. American Samoa says restrictions on fishing are crippling the ...

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    Apr. 14—In a letter to the U.S. Office of National Marine Sanctuaries in September, American Samoa's Gov. Lemanu Mauga wrote that "fishing prohibitions not only weaken U.S. fisheries but also ...