The overfishing of deep sea fish is more endangered than the panda.

A variety of deepwater fish in the Atlantic Ocean have been overhunted by humans, and the situation is so serious that even the giant panda and the Bengal tiger are more endangered, according to a new study by Canadian scientists.

Canadian biologists studied five species of deep-sea fish in Canadian waters from 1978 to 1994 to understand the serious impact of coastal fishermen's shift to deep-sea fishing on marine ecology.

Scientists have found that in 17 years, the five fish species have plummeted by at least 87%, to as much as 98%.

In a statement published in the British journal Nature, they said: "they meet the standards of the World Union for Conservation of Natural Resources and can be classified as extremely endangered.

These five kinds of fish include both ordinary and rare fish.

They are round-nosed long-tailed eel, onion-eyed long-tailed cod, blue sea fin, stinging eel and stingray.

In addition, the latest survey data of two species of fish (round nose and onion eye long caudal fin) are from 1995 to 2003. In both cases, the population of the two fish plummeted 99.6% during the 26-year study. 93.3%, according to a team led by Jennifer Devon, a scientist at Memorial University of Newfoundland, in the article, the results are strong evidence that deep-sea fishing is having a catastrophic impact on deep-sea fish.