As the name suggests, overfishing means the excess capturing of fish from the sea at a single time. While this could be attributed to people simply just fishing too much, it is also linked to commercial fishing practices. These practices see groups take as much as they can from the sea, ...
The model underlined that management actions are needed to restore and protect target species including marine mammals, pelagic and demersal fishes. In particular, measures to reduce overfishing, illegal fishing activities and to respect existing legislations are in need. Moreover, the adoption of ...
Overfishing is a critical environmental issue that threatens the health and sustainability of our oceans and marine ecosystems. When fish populations are caught at a rate faster than they can reproduce and replenish their numbers, leading to declines in their populations and negative impacts on the b...
A. 2008. Effects of climate and overfishing on zooplankton dynamics and ecosystem structure: regime shifts, trophic cascade, and feeback loops in a simple ecosystem. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65: 302–310. The Central Baltic Sea is the largest brackish waterbody in the world ocean,...
Overfishing has the potential to severely disrupt coral reef ecosystems worldwide, while harvesting at more sustainable levels instead can boost fish yield
With oceans taking up over 70% of the earth, sea creatures and the overall health of marine life is essential for sustaining life elsewhere on the planet, but overfishing is having drastic effects on the future of both ocean and land dwellers....
Ocean noise pollution is an addition to the already pressing problems on marine habitats such as global warming, plastic pollution, acidification, and overfishing. The problem is serious since sound waves travel faster in water, covering greater distances than they would on land while traveling throug...
have been blamed on hydropower, overfishing, ocean conditions, and land use practices; however, less is known about the impacts of introduced fish. Most of the hundreds of lakes and ponds in the Pacific Northwest contain introduced fishes, and many of these water bodies are also important for ...
Overfishing does not just harm the species of fish that is being caught. It also knocks the entire local ecosystem off balance, affecting the animals that the fish would normally eat and those that rely on it as their food source.Chapter 2: Aquaculture...
So, we might expect curtailment of discarding to have some form of 'bottom-up' ecological effects on the food web by reducing food supply at various trophic levels. However, what will be the magnitude of these effects and how might they compare with the effects of changing the selectivity ...