Usually means: Catch more fish than sustainable.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. overfish: Merriam-Webster
  2. overfish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. overfish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. overfish: Collins English Dictionary
  5. overfish: Wordnik
  6. overfish: Wiktionary
  7. overfish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. overfish: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Overfish, overfish: Dictionary.com
  10. Overfish: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Overfish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. overfish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Overfish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. overfish: FreeDictionary.org
  15. overfish: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (overfish)

verb:  (ambitransitive) 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.

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