Overharvested

Choosing sustainable seafood can be tricky, but Danson urges consumers to avoid buying large, overharvested species and farm-raised carnivorous fish and to look for the Marine Stewardship Council certification label on seafood products at the grocery store. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By the mid-20th century, geoducks had been overharvested, and even an industrious beachcomber had trouble finding one. ❋ Geoffrey Norman (2010)

While artisanal and inshore fisheries are generally overharvested, some countries have not yet developed the capacity to fully exploit, or enforce regulation of, their offshore fisheries. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pygeum has become so popular that Herbalgram, a magazine that follows the herb industry, recently reported that pygeum bark is being overharvested, which could not only lead to a shortage of this valuable herb, but put the species at risk of extinction. ❋ Earl Mindell (2008)

If renewable resources are harvested at a rate greater than their regeneration rate, the long-term flow of benefits is reduced, and they are said to be overharvested. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Striped Bass have come back in a big way, although there are very large numbers of small bass the large ones are still being overharvested. ❋ Thatsnews (2007)

“It was back before they overharvested the oyster beds—we picked so many oysters from the rocks we could hardly sell them.” ❋ Barry Golson (2006)

While Native cultures revered their indigenous tortoises, the European conquerors overharvested the giant tortoises as soon as it was discovered that these two- to six-hundred-pound giant creatures offered a fresh meat supply aboard ships. ❋ D.V.M. Donna Kelleher (2003)

This mild, almost-translucent skinned fish, called "white fish" even though it's not the usual whitefish found elsewhere, was overharvested and later blighted by parasites, which left many just a tad leery about trying it. ❋ Unknown (1997)