Unit 6: Fish Production

Question 1

Fish production methods

Answer 1

Fishery and aquaculture

Question 2

Fishery

Answer 2

A commercially harvestable population of fish within a particular ecological region.

Question 3

Aquaculture

Answer 3

Farming aquatic organisms such as fish, shellfish, and seaweed in constructed aquatic ecosystems where they are protected from disease and predators.

Question 4

Fishery pros

Answer 4

Easy to catch large amounts of fish.

Question 5

Fishery cons

Answer 5

Tragedy of the commons, fishery collapse, damage habitats, cascading effects of population decline, bycatch.

Question 6

Aquaculture pros

Answer 6

Protected from disease and predators, recover fisheries, can boost the economies of developing countries.

Question 7

Aquaculture cons

Answer 7

Wastewater pumped into bodies of water, can harm wild fish if escaped.

Question 8

Individual transferable quota (ITQ)

Answer 8

A fishery management program in which individual fishers are given a total allowable catch of fish in a season that they can either catch or sell.

Question 9

Fishery collapse

Answer 9

Overfishing causes 90% decline in fish population.

Question 10

Solutions to overfishing

Answer 10

International legislation, catch limits, age/size limits, modify techniques, educating consumers.