AP Environmental Science / Unit 5: Land and Water Use
5.8 Impacts of Overfishing
Notes
Overfishing can cause fishery collapse.
- Bottom trawling destroys seafloor habitat.
- Bycatch: unwanted species caught and killed.
- Removing top predators changes ocean food webs.
Practice
Bycatch is:
Turtles, dolphins, etc.
Bottom trawling harms ecosystems by:
Nets drag the bottom.
A fishery collapse means:
Overharvesting.
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