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Overfish
To fish excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
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To fish excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| fishingnoun | (uncountable) The act of catching fish. |
| depletionnoun | The consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished. |
| overgrazingnoun | Excessive grazing to an extent that the land is damaged. |
| overuseverb | (transitive) To use too much of (something); to use (it) too often. |
| overexploitationnoun | Excessive and damaging exploitation. |
| excessive | Exceeding the usual bounds of something; too much (of amount); extravagant; immoderate. |
| over-fishingverb | — |
| outfishverb | (transitive) To catch bigger (or more) fish than. |
| underfishverb | To fish less than would still be sustainable; to underuse (an area) for fishing. |
| fish outverb | (idiomatic) To search for by rummaging, and then extract (an item from e.g. a container); to obtain. |
| fishnoun | (countable) A typically cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills. |
| overnetnoun | (transitive) To cover with a net or netting. |
| groundfishnoun | (fishing) Fish that swim near the seafloor |
| sportfishnoun | Alternative form of sport fish. [fish providing sport for an angler] |
| trawlnoun | A net or dragnet used for trawling. |
| blackfishnoun | A pilot whale (Globicephalus spp.) and occasionally also used for various other whales). |
| dragnoun | (physics, uncountable) Resistance of a fluid to something moving through it. |
| shrimpnoun | Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen. |
| oysternoun | Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers. |
| crabnoun | Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. |
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