Sobrepesca

Em ciências pesqueiras, chama-se sobrepesca à situação em que a atividade pesqueira duma espécie ou numa região deixa de ser sustentável, ou seja: quanto mais esforço de pesca se utiliza, menores são os rendimentos, seja do ponto de vista biológico, seja econômico.

Bibliografia

• Clover, Charles. 2004. The End of the Line: How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. Ebury Press, London. ISBN 0-09-189780-7
• Kurlansky, Mark. (1997). Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World. New York: Walker. ISBN 0-8027-1326-2.
• Loder, Natasha. 2005. Point of No Return. Conservation in Practice 6(3):28-34. On overfishing as an evolutionary force and the "Darwinian debt" for future generations.
• Gordon, H. S. 1953. An Economic Approach to the optimum utilization of Fishery Resources, Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 10(7), 442-57.
• Gordon, H.S. 1954. The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource: The Fishery, Journal of the Political Economy, 62, 124-42.
• Kirkley, J.E. and Squires, D. 1999. Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Fishing Industries, Discussion paper 99-16, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego.
• Vestergaard, N., Squires, D. and Kirkley, J.E. 2003. Measuring Capacity and Capacity Utilization in Fisheries. The Case of the Danish Gillnet Fleet, Fisheries Research, 60(2-3), 357-68.