Food
Are single-celled organism that can photosynthesize and the most important producers in the oceans.
What is phytoplankton?
It was created to designate continental shelves as belonging to a country.
What is UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Laws of the Sea)?
Where are China, Indonesia, Peru, India, Russia, USA and Vietnam?
Commonly fed to farmed fish.
What is fishmeal?
It is where most of the overfishing and pollution problem happens.
Where is the international waters?
It is where 50% of oceanic productivity happens because of photosynthesis.
It is the percentage of fishing activity in the ocean.
How much is 90%?
It is the capture of non-target species which are thrown back into the ocean
What is by-catch?
Most likely habitat being replaced by fish farms.
What is a mangrove?
Result of using feed, antifouling agent or antibiotics added to the fish pens.
What is pollution/.
It is the amount in kg of how much fish is consumed by each person per year.
How much is 20kg?
How far is 200 nautical mile of 370 km?
A fishing method where a heavy weighted net is dragged across the ocean floor.
What is bottom trawling?
Aquatic species to have the least carbon footprint but very high protein.
What is mussels?
It is a metaphor that illustrated how a resource is seen as belonging to all but human tend to exploit it or even overexploit it if we can.
They are in the 1st trophic level of the aquatic food chain. Their waste supports the food webs in the ocean.
What are zooplankton?
It is the highest amount that can be taken without permanently depleting the stock.
What is Maximum Sustainable Yield?
Give 2 of the 4 aquatic species identified by the author Paul Greenberg which are under threat of low population.
What ar?salmon, shrimp, cod and tuna>?
Country which produce 62% of farmed fish and uses carps and catfish in rice paddies.
Where is China?
One of the richest fishing ground on Earth. They have their peak in 1962 but was closed in 1992.
Where is Newfoundland cod fishery?
2 classification of marine organism
What is benthic and pelagic?
This brings nutrient rich water up to the continental shelf.
What is an upwelling?
This is the percentage of how much fisheries are fully exploited according to FAO (Food and Agricultural Organisation of UN)
How much is 75%?
Name 3 methods of aquaculture?
What are suspended culture, bag and rack, open net pens or cages and pond system?
A species of whale declared not in danger of extinctions according to Union for Conservation of Nature.
What is minke whale?