Editing Renewable resource (section)

===Overfishing===
[[Image:Surexploitation morue surpêcheEn.jpg|thumb|[[Atlantic cod]] stocks severely overfished leading to abrupt collapse]]
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''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' has described ocean over fishing as "simply the taking of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for fished species to replace themselves."<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.org/society/our-programs/pristine-seas/ |title=Overfishing |magazine=[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]] |access-date=2013-01-06}}</ref>

[[Tuna]] meat is driving overfishing as to endanger some species like the bluefin tuna. The European Community and other organisations are trying to regulate fishery as to protect species and to prevent their extinctions.<ref>[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2002:358:0059:0080:EN:PDF COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2371/2002] of 20 December 2002 on the conservation and sustainable exploitation of fisheries resources under the Common Fisheries Policy. Retrieved 2013-01-05.</ref> The [[United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea]] treaty deals with aspects of overfishing in articles 61, 62, and 65.<ref>
{{cite web
|url=https://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/texts/unclos/part5.htm
|title=Text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Part V
|access-date=2012-05-01
}}</ref>

Examples of overfishing exist in areas such as the [[Fishing in the North Sea|North Sea]] of [[Europe]], the [[Grand Banks of Newfoundland|Grand Banks]] of [[North America]] and the [[East China Sea]] of Asia.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.gov.cn/english/2006-08/16/content_363493.htm
|title=Pollution, overfishing destroy East China Sea fishery
|editor=Lu Hui
|work=[[Xinhua]] on GOV.cn
|date=16 August 2006
|access-date=2012-05-01
|archive-date=2012-02-24
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224105748/http://www.gov.cn/english/2006-08/16/content_363493.htm
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

The decline of [[penguin]] population is caused in part by overfishing, caused by human competition over the same renewable resources<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100906145115.htm |title=Most Penguin Populations Continue to Decline, Biologists Warn |publisher=Science Daily |work=Science News |date=Sep 9, 2010 |access-date=2013-01-05}}</ref>

[[File:Deforestation central Europe - Rodungen Mitteleuropa.jpg|thumb|[[Deforestation]] in [[Europe]] in 2018]]