Multiple choice

What happens when too many of one species of fish is fished too much?

  1. The fish can't reproduce to recover their numbers

  2. The number of other fish goes up

  3. People eat less fish

  4. Nothing happens
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Explanation

When a fish population is overfished, the breeding stock is depleted to levels where they cannot reproduce fast enough to sustain or recover their population size.

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