fish down

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fish down (third-person singular simple present fishes down, present participle fishing down, simple past and past participle fished down)

  1. (transitive) 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.