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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.
The End of the Line: How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. London: Ebury Press. ISBN 0-09-189780-7. Guha, Ramachandra (1999). Environmentalism: A Global History. Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0321011695. Headrick, Daniel R. (2020). Humans Versus Nature: A Global Environmental History. New York: Oxford University Press. Jones ...
Eutrophication and overfishing. [381] c. 1900-1950: Lord Howe long-eared bat: Nyctophilus howensis: Lord Howe Island, Australia 2020 (IUCN) Possibly predation by introduced owls and rats. [382] 1900: Leafshell: Epioblasma flexuosa: Tennessee, Cumberland, and Ohio River systems, United States 1983 (IUCN) Undetermined. [383] 1901: Car Nicobar ...
History portal; Art of Europe; Geologic time scale; List of fossil sites with link directory. List of timelines around the world. Logarithmic timeline shows all history on one page in ten lines. Orders of magnitude (time) Periodization for a discussion of the tendency to try to fit history into non-overlapping periods. Time. Planck Time
A range of factors are contributing to the problem, including abuses by fishing operators, use of child labor, overfishing, climate change, armed conflicts and poverty, said the report, based on ...
The problem of overfishing are as follows: the catches of wild fish have peaked and are now in decline, rational fishery management is the exception rather than the rule, the most valuable fish is trawled to the point of extinction, the developed world is stealing from both the developing world and the future generations, and fish farming, the ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
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