What's the difference between overcatch and overfish?
Overcatch
Definition:
(v. t.) To overtake.
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Overfish
Definition:
(v. t.) To fish to excess.
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(1) The enormous effort to satisfy that big appetite creates significant environmental impacts, from fertilizers leaching into our water supplies and overfishing to massive die-offs of bees from pesticides and habitat loss.
(2) Fearnley-Whittingstall, who will again highlight the continued problem of overfishing in his Channel 4 programme Hugh's Fish Fight , said: "Tesco made one of the biggest commitments of all to sell the most sustainable tuna.
(3) The earliest we could find was in 1969 – the year he was crowned Prince of Wales at a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle – about overfishing of Atlantic salmon.
(4) Eco-projects abound, from new plans for a marine reserve on its coast to stop overfishing and protect key species – which has miraculously been fully supported and even called for by resident fisherman – to an ongoing programme which last month saw the reintroduction of red deer (poached to local extinction in 1969).
(5) On the question of environmental impact of the GM camelina, Napier said success would have clear benefits for the overfished oceans, while on the question of safety, he said: "The scientific consensus is that there is no evidence of problems to human health."
(6) Now, in a move aimed to put pressure on the developed countries to curb their fleets, community leaders in Joal and across Senegal have warned that overfishing by foreign fleets could lead to piracy and violence on the scale of Somalia, as well as a flood of economic migrants leaving west Africa to find work in Europe.
(7) Some areas are more vulnerable to losses – global fishing fleets, for instance, will probably have to be reduced if overfishing is to be tackled, and fishermen will have to be found new employment.
(8) Discarding – where fishermen toss back hundreds of tonnes of edible fish, usually dead, because they have exceeded their fishing quota or have caught species for which they have no quota – has been the most striking example of the failures of a common fisheries policy that green groups have said is "broken" and encourages overfishing instead of protecting dwindling stocks.
(9) Fishing continues on the spawning grounds of this heavily overfished tuna species."
(10) Alinovi says the UN programme will have to deal with politically charged issues such as land tenure, disputes between pastoralists and farmers , and overfishing by foreign vessels as Somalia has no exclusive economic zone around its waters .
(11) The genre is also set to swell this summer with the openings of overfishing documentary End of the Line and Werner Herzog's Antarctica-set film Encounters at the End of the World .
(12) It needs to recognise that we must deal with overfishing.
(13) Overfishing means reefs are now far less likely to recover after bleaching.
(14) Scarborough Reef, South China Sea Ownership disputes between the Philippines, mainland China and Taiwan mean the waters surrounding this reef are heavily overfished, and mangled by the blasts and cyanide used to maximise catch.
(15) A lot of the sorts of things that are happening around the world – not just climate change but also ocean acidification, eutrophication, introduced species, pollution, overfishing – they’re all impacting the whole world and we’re not immune here in Australia.
(16) That fact should be appreciated by all concerned.” Mokoreng village, Los Negros Fishing sustains the people of Los Negros but overfishing, overpopulation and climate change are taking their toll on the precious resource.
(17) If we were to take strong action on the emission issue and we were to take strong action on the non-climate issues such as overfishing and pollution, reefs would rebound by mid to late century,” he said.
(18) Kathryn Stack, the managing director of the Europeche trade association for the fishing industry said that Europe’s overfished stocks had fallen substantially from 2005.
(19) We also recognize the significant economic, social and environmental contributions of coral reefs, in particular to islands and other coastal States, as well as the significant vulnerability of coral reefs and mangroves to impacts including from climate change, ocean acidification, overfishing, destructive fishing practices and pollution.
(20) Other threats include overfishing, pollution and invasive species – as well as natural hazards, such as the earthquake that triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, which forced reefs from the water.