Overfishing
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Overfishing is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of overfish.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of overfish.
More Meanings
- Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
Example Sentences
Most of the overfishings in the international sense are a product of misuse.
The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was used to make kerosene, the main fuel for artificial lighting after overfishing led to a shortage of whale blubber. Other liquids produced in the refining process, too unstable or smoky for lamplight, were burned or dumped.
Word Forms
- overfishings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fishing, depletion, overgrazing, overuse, overexploitation, excessive.
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