13C Flashcards

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Orientation Clicks

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low frequency clicks used in echolocation that give an animal a general idea of its surroundings

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Discrimination Clicks

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high frequency clicks used in echolocation that give an animal a precise picture of a particular object

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Signature Whistles

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unique sound produced by a dolphin to identify an individual

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Melon

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oval mass of fatty waxy material in a dolphins head that functions tin directing and focusing the sounds used in echolocation

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Renewable Resources

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resources that can replenish themselves

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Stocks

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separate population of fish that is assumed to be reproductively isolated from others in range

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Tagging

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prosecute for monitoring the distribution and movement of animals in the environment

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Landings

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catch made by fishing vessels

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Fishing Effort

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measure of the number of vessels fishing, number of fishers working, number of hours spent fishing

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Overfishing

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catching fish faster than they can reproduce and replace themselves

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Trawl Nets

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large nets that are dragged along the sea bottom

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EEZ

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the area of corn that a coastal nation controls

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Surimi

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fishery product made from alaskan pollock

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Destructive Fishing

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best choices, good alternatives, avoid

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Incidental catch(byctach)

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non commercial animals that are killed during fishing for commercial fishing

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trash fish

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term used for incidental fishing ?

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drift nets

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large nets that may stretch for as much as 60 kilometers

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tans

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individual sections of a drift net

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Aquaculture

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The use of aqua culture techniques to breed and raise marine organisms

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Monoculture

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The process of raising a single species in aqua culture

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Polyculture

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The process of raising several species together in aqua culture

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raft culture

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A form of aqua culture, in which juveniles of commercially valuable molluscs are attached to robes expended from rafts

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Eco-friendly aqua culture

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A type of aqua culture where the growing of fish or shellfish, do not have negative impacts on the environment; some positves are
1. Using waste to produce food for animals.
2. using waste as a fertilizer for plants
3. Using animals to minimize waste back to sea.

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problems with aquaculture

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  1. Pollution.
  2. Wild fish caught to feed cultured fish.
  3. Invasive species.
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Tuna

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  1. longlined- yellowfin, bigeye, albacore
  2. hand lined- bluefin, albacore
  3. purse seined- yellowfin, bluefin
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purse seines

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huge nets that can be closed by pulling in a line, similar to the way a purse or a bag of marble is closed

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Marine mammal protection act

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1972 to reduce e the number of marine mammals including dolphins killed in fisheries

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backing down

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technique in which the skiff setting the purse seine backs up, causing the edge of the net to drop beneath the surface of the water allowing dolphins to escape

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ocean ranching

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process in which young fish are raised in one’s and then returned to the sea to supplement natural populations

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desalination

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process of removing salt from seawater

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sulfides

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minerals containing sulfur

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same and gravel

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extract them for:
-cement
-concrete
-replenishing natural beaches
-creating artificial beaches

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fossil fuels

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fuels formed from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago

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meghan hydrate

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ice that holds methane gas