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Overfishing vs Overhunting - What's the difference?

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Overhunting is a related term of overfishing.



As nouns the difference between overfishing and overhunting

is that overfishing is fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable while overhunting is hunting at unsustainable levels.

As a verb overfishing

is present participle of lang=en.

overfishing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • Fishing that reduces the stock of remaining fish in an area to below that which is acceptable.
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    External links

    * (wikipedia "overfishing")

    References

    * Europe's seas are in a "serious state of decline" as a result of coastal development, overfishing and pollution from agriculture, warn scientists. ( BBC news)

    overhunting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Hunting at unsustainable levels
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    • , passage=When the mighty elk herds of the West were facing the possibility of extinction from overhunting , settlement and neglect a century ago, people here stepped forward and began what has turned out to be a profound biological experiment. }}

    Related terms

    *overfishing *over exploitation