Chapter 9 Flashcards
Triangle Trade
Trade among three ports. The triangle trade route involving codfish was the transatlantic slave trade that carried slaves, fish, cash crops, and manufactured goods among West Africa, North America, and Europe.
Total Allowable Catch (TACT)
Shares of the total allowable annual catch of a single species of fish allocated according to the weight of fish to be caught in a given area over a given period of time. ITQs can be bought, sold, leased, or otherwise transferred, and therefore take on the quality of a property right to the allocated wild fish species.
Maximum Sustainable Yield
Largest catch level that can be maintained annually from a single species fish stock without undermining the annual reproductive potential of the stock.
Carrying Capacity
An estimate of how many species a given area of habitat can support over the long term, usually limited by the available food in a given location.
Endangered Species
endangered species facing imminent extirpation or extinction
Exclusive Economic Zone
A space extending 200 nautical miles from the shoreline where states hold special rights over the exploration and exploitation of living marine resources such as fish stocks and mineral resources.
EEZs have been created throughout the world’s coastal states following the rules set out in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Wild Fisheries
Also referred to as capture fisheries. The aquatic life targeted by wild fisheries is not controlled and needs to be located, captured, and killed. Wild fisheries are located in lakes and rivers as well as along coastal continental shelf regions of the world’s oceans.
Regime of the Aquarium
A theory that argues that fishing technologies, management, and scientific representations of the ocean have transformed wild ocean spaces and species into domesticated spaces and species under human control
Blue Revolution
Shift from fishing for wild fish to growing domesticated aquatic species as commodities for sale in global seafood markets. It is associated with the rapid expansion of intensive, commercial aquaculture operations on the model of the Green Revolution in agriculture.
Individual tranferrable quotas
Shares of the total allowable annual catch of a single species of fish allocated according to the weight of fish to be caught in a given area over a given period of time. ITQs can be bought, sold, leased, or otherwise transferred, and therefore take on the quality of a property right to the allocated wild fish species.
