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2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. The number of fish on US overfishing list reaches an ... - AOL

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   In Europe, the European Commission has worked to prioritze detering unsustainable fishing practices. The removal of species from the overfishing list shows the U.S. is making progress, said Rick ...

5. Environmental impact of fishing - Wikipedia

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   These two practices are commonly used for the aquarium trade and the live fish food trade. [10] These practices are destructive because they impact the habitat that the reef fish live on after the fish have been removed. Bottom trawling, the practice of pulling a fishing net along the sea bottom behind trawlers, removes around 5 to 25% of an ...

6. Population dynamics of fisheries - Wikipedia

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   Different measures are appropriate for different kinds of fisheries. For example, the fishing effort exerted by a fishing fleet in a trawl fishery might be measured by summing the products of the engine power for each boat and time it spent at sea (KW × days). For a gill-net fishery the effort might be measured by summing the products of the ...

7. Thailand welcomes EU decision to lift warning on illegal fishing

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   In 2015, the world's third largest exporter of seafood received a so-called "yellow card", or warning from the European Union over unsustainable fishing practices, carrying the threat of a ...

8. Overexploitation - Wikipedia

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   This unsustainable practice disrupts ecosystems, threatening biodiversity and leading to the potential extinction of vulnerable species. All living organisms require resources to survive. Overexploitation of these resources for protracted periods can deplete natural stocks to the point where they are unable to recover within a short time frame.

9. Marine ecosystem - Wikipedia

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   LME-based conservation is based on recognition that the world's coastal ocean waters are degraded by unsustainable fishing practices, habitat degradation, eutrophication, toxic pollution, aerosol contamination, and emerging diseases, and that positive actions to mitigate these threats require coordinated actions by governments and civil society ...