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Term

overfishing

Term

Taking out of the sea more than natural population growth can sustain. Overfishing has a number of causes, the most ruthless being 'chronic over capacity' of modern fishing fleets to effectively take far more fish than can be replaced.

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Source:

EEA Glossary

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Definition source publication

ETC/CDS. General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus (GEMET 2000)

Publication year

2000

Definition source URL

http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/EEAGlossary

Organisation

ETC/CDS

Organisation full name

Subjects

MARINE AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENT

Long definition

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