overfish
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English
Etymology
Verb
overfish (third-person singular simple present overfishes, present participle overfishing, simple past and past participle overfished)
- (transitive, intransitive) To fish (an area or a species) excessively, often substantially reducing over several years the supply of one or more species of fish in an area.
Translations
to catch fish excessively reducing future catches
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