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What is a major ecological consequence of chronic overfishing in marine ecosystems?
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- 1It directly increases the rate of coastal sediment erosion.
- 2It accelerates species richness by eliminating competitive predators.
- 3It causes trophic cascades and imbalances in marine food webs.✓
- 4It promotes long-term genetic variability within target fish species.
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It causes trophic cascades and imbalances in marine food webs.
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