Fisheries

Question 1

FMP

Answer 1

Fishery Management Plan

Question 2

Stock assessments are designed to answer what questions?

Answer 2

1. What is the current status of a fish stock relative to established targets? 2. How much can fishermen catch while maintaining a healthy and sustainable fish stock?3. If a stock is depleted, what measures can be taken to rebuild it to a healthy abundance?

Question 3

What data must be known to perform a stock assessment?

Answer 3

Catch data (amount removed by fishing)Abundance data (measure of the number of fish or weight of the stock)Biology data (growth rates and natural mortality)

Question 4

To predict the future state of a fish stock, which model is the most used and how does it work?

Answer 4

Integrated Analysis Model. 3 levels of modeling with Population, Observation, and Statistical modeling.

Question 5

What does FIS stand for?

Answer 5

Fisheries Information System.

Question 6

What does FIS do?

Answer 6

Improve data collection and integration across regions of the United States.

Question 7

What does FIN stand for?

Answer 7

Fisheries Information Network.

Question 8

What is the purpose of FIN?

Answer 8

To collect, manage, and disseminate fisheries information in the Southeast Region (Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean).

Question 9

What are The National Standards?

Answer 9

Principles that must be followed in any FMP in order for it to be approved.

Question 10

How many tons of fish are caught in the wild per year?

Answer 10

93.2 million

Question 11

How many tons of fish are farmed per year?

Answer 11

48.1

Question 12

How many tons of wild aquatic plants a harvested per year?

Answer 12

1.3 million

Question 13

How many tons of aquatic plants are formed per year?

Answer 13

14.8 million

Question 14

SOPHIA

Answer 14

State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture

Question 15

Top 3 Aquaculture production countries

Answer 15

China (27.8 million tons)
India (2.1 million tons)
Japan (.8 million tons)

Question 16

What country has the largest EEZ claim?

Answer 16

France (surprising, but it has a bunch of islands)

Question 17

Most of China and India’s Aquaculture is from what?

Answer 17

Freshwater fish and shellfish

Question 18

What percent of fisheries are fully/overexploited?

Answer 18

75%

Question 19

What percent of fisheries are depleted?

Answer 19

6%

Question 20

Top 3 capture-based fishery production countries

Answer 20

China (17 million tons)
Peru (10.7 million tons)
Japan (5 million tons)

Question 21

What percent of total protein consumption is composed of fish?

Answer 21

16%

Question 22

What is the largest use of fish in the US?

Answer 22

Fresh fish (for food)

Question 23

Second largest use of fish in the US?

Answer 23

Non-food use

Question 24

Top 3 fish caught worldwide

Answer 24

Anchoveta (Peruvian anchovy)
Alaskan Walleye Pollock
Chilean Jack Mackerel

Question 25

How much of the annual harvest of fish worldwide comes from the Indian Ocean?

Answer 25

1/5

Question 26

What does National Standard 2 deal with?

Answer 26

Scientific Information

Question 27

What does National Standard 3 deal with?

Answer 27

Management Units

Question 28

What does National Standard 4 deal with?

Answer 28

Allocations

Question 29

What does National Standard 5 deal with?

Answer 29

Efficiency

Question 30

What does National Standard 7 deal with?

Answer 30

Costs and benefits

Question 31

What does National Standard 9 deal with?

Answer 31

Bycatch

Question 32

What does National Standard 8 deal with?

Answer 32

Communities

Question 33

What does National Standard 1 deal with?

Answer 33

Optimum Yield

Question 34

What does National Standard 10 deal with?

Answer 34

Safety of Life at Sea

Question 35

What does National Standard 6 deal with?

Answer 35

Variations and Contingencies