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  2. The End of the Line (book) - Wikipedia

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    The book provides details about overfishing in many of the world's critical ocean habitats, such as the New England fishing grounds, west African coastlines, the European North Atlantic fishing grounds, and the ocean around Japan. [3] The book concludes with suggestions on how the nations of the world could engage in sustainable ocean fishing. [3]

  3. Human impact on marine life - Wikipedia

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    Overfishing is occurring in one third of world fish stocks, according to a 2018 report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. [9] In addition, industry observers believe illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing occurs in most fisheries, and accounts for up to 30% of total catches in some important fisheries. [ 10 ]

  4. Overfishing - 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.

  5. Human impact on the environment - Wikipedia

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    The World Scientists' Warning to Humanity in 1992 begins with: "Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course". About 1,700 of the world's leading scientists, including most Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences, signed this warning letter. The letter mentions severe damage to the atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, soil productivity ...

  6. 1972 Peruvian anchoveta crisis - Wikipedia

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    [11] [25] [24] However, although it did play a part in causing the crash of the population, recent times and research have found that overfishing was also a large cause of the crisis. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] [ 23 ] [ 33 ] Before the collapse, the fishing quota of about 9.5 million tons set by both the Peruvian government and recommended by scientists was ...

  7. Sustainable fishery - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    reading and mathematics, for which children are tested in grades 3 through 8. “If a child fails the test, she is judged not to have received a good education from the school. If the school does not make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) on student test scores, the school is considered not providing a good

  9. Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery - Wikipedia

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    The Atlantic fishery abruptly collapsed in 1993, following overfishing since the late-1950s, and an earlier partial collapse in the 1970s. [1] It is expected to recover to historical, sustainable levels by 2030. [2] In 1992, Northern Cod populations fell to 1% of historical levels, due in large part to decades of overfishing. [3]

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