overfish
verbEtymology From over- + fish.
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Ambitransitive To fish (an area or a species) excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
- In the 1970s, it become^([sic]) increasingly clear that cod were being overfished in the northwest Atlantic Ocean.2001, Bob Ritter, “Chapter 4: Sustaining Aquatic Ecosystems”, in Science 10, Nelson Thomson Learning, page 152:
- Derived terms
- overfisher