English Explanatory Dictionary

fish down

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To move down the trophic chain of seafood, i.e. moving from fishing top-level predators to fishes lower in the food chain, as a result of overfishing affecting top-level predators first.

Word forms

fish down fishes down fishing down fished down
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