Overfishing occurs when fish are depleted so much that they either cannot sustain their population, or cannot reproduce. Many fish are caught to the point that there aren’t enough remaining within an ecosystem to survive, or are caught before they have fully matured. Which means the cause of overfishing is US! We as in you and I are the reason overfishing is occurring, fishing is a business the more fisheries bring in the more money given to those fisheries. Many
decades ago, our oceans were full of fishes but unfortunately, this is not the
case today. On average 20% of what is caught in the U.S is thrown away each year do to selfish activities that we're involved in. Overfishing
has been documented since the early 1800s, when whales were killed in search
for blubber for lamp oil. By the mid-1900s, Atlantic cod, herring, and
California Sardines were harvested to the brink of extinction.