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For example it's estimated that the population of bluefin tuna, is just 2.6% of its historic, unfished size.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2024

Limit reference points are typically set between 20 to 30 per cent of the unfished biomass baseline.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2023

Crappie are fair on jigs, especially in the mainly unfished south lake.

From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2020

“I saw that myself diving in the remote and unfished southern Line Islands in 2009,” he said.

From Washington Post • Sep. 14, 2016

In the comparatively unfished rivers of Scandinavia large salmon are much more frequent, although the largest we ever heard of was an English fish which came into the possession of Mr Groves, of Bond Street.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various