overfishing

Noun

uncountable

Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.

Japanese Meaning

魚の在庫が許容できる水準を下回るまで減少させる漁業行為 / 魚資源の枯渇を招くほどの過剰漁獲 / 持続可能な採取レベルを超える漁獲活動

What is this buttons?

Overfishing threatens coastal communities that rely on fish for food and income.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

魚の資源量を許容される水準を下回るまで減らす乱獲は、食料や収入を魚に頼る沿岸地域のコミュニティを脅かしている。

Details

Sense（1）

Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.

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.

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