Other than water itself, this is the most important water resource for human societies
What is: Fish
100
The incidental catching and discarding of species while fishing
What is: Bycatch
100
This field of study is interested in the cost of operating a fishery and whether it can be conducted profitably
What is: Economics
100
This scale of fishery accounts for 94% (8 million) fishermen worldwide, and supplies almost half of the global fish catch
What are: Small-scale fisheries
100
This percentage of global fish catch is discarded at sea, dead or dying, each year
What is: 25%
200
This term means “the water environment”
What is: The hydrosphere
200
A fishing technique where a large net is dragged by a vessel along the bottom or in the midwater of the sea
What is: Trawling
200
This discipline was responsible for the implementation of “the International Law of the Sea”
What is: Law
200
This scale of fishery exerts the most influence on market and government policies regarding the fishing industry
What are: Large-scale fisheries
200
These 2 groups of people make up the most basic level of the hierarchical structure of the fisheries industry
Who are: Fishermen and Merchants
300
This area of the oceans has historically been considered common property and open to unrestricted access
What is: the open sea / the high sea
300
A fishing technique where devices are submerged into the water, allowing fish to enter but making it hard for them to escape
What is: Trapping
300
This discipline is concerned with the location and spatial pattern of fishing grounds, ports, markets and consumers
What is: Geography
300
The majority of small-scale fisheries are found in these types of nations
What are: Developing Nations
300
Of the more than 235,000 animal species known to live in the ocean, more than 98% are found on this level of the ocean
What is: the Ocean floor / Seabed
400
In modern times, the national ownership of the sea by countries extends to this distance from land
What is: 200 nautical miles
400
A fishing technique where an apparatus is used to scoop up objects from the seabed to target bottom-dwelling species such as scallops, oysters, clams, crabs, and sea cucumbers
What is: Dredging
400
This field of study was the first to analyze fisheries
What is: Marine Biology
400
Any other term that is commonly used for small-scale fishing
What is: artisanal, native, coastal, inshore, tribal, peasant or traditional
400
This group accounts for 15% of people employed in the primary sector of fisheries, and 90% of people in the secondary sector, such as processing
Who are: Women
500
The extent to which fish has been used as a resource in various parts of the world is largely determined by this
What is: Culture
500
Lost or abandoned fishing gear that continues to disturb or catch organisms, despite never being retrieved by humans
What is: Ghost Fishing
500
These 2 disciplines are interested in the relationship and social separation of fisheries from neighbouring communities
What are: Sociology and Anthropology
500
Although this type of fishing is primarily for leisure, it still has a significant impact on decreasing fish stocks
What is: Recreational Fishing
500
As mentioned in the article by McGoodwin (1990), this American author wrote the novel “The Old Man and the Sea” in 1951