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Overfishing is fishing at rates that exceed
the sustained-yield cropping of fish species,
resulting in a net population decline. Eg: in
the North Atlantic, herring has been fished
to the verge of extinction and the cod and
haddock populations are severely depleted. In
the Third World, use of huge factory ships,
often by fisheries from industrialized
countries, has depleted stocks for local
people who cannot obtain protein in any other
way.
Subject by: Shaun Jay