over-fishing
/ˌəʊvəˈfɪʃɪŋ/ noun [U]Definition
› catching so many fish in a part of the sea that there are not many fish left there: low fish stocks caused by over-fishing
(Definition of over-fishing noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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