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The pressure to feed Asia’s growing population has led to dangerous levels of overfishing near Pacific coastlines.An example can be found in Sindangan，a fishing town in the southern Philippines.Wild catches are falling while prices are rising.The fisherman says the area’s once healthy fish stocks are in danger because of an increase in the number of fishing boats.Across the South China Sea，fish catches near shore have dropped since the nineteen eighties.That drop has pushed fishermen to go offshore with bigger boats.Benjamin Francisco is an official with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.He says some of the methods they use to increase their catches are destructive.