Overfishing: Harvesting fish at a rate faster than the population can reproduce, leading to stock depletion.
How to apply it: Apply overfishing to explain why the Atlantic cod fishery collapsed in the early 1990s.
Course: AP Environmental Science · Unit: Land and Water Use
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