General Knowledge
What is commercial fishing?
What is the practice of catching fish and other seafood from oceans, rivers, and lakes to sell for profit.
Commercial Fishing Provides these two things for people.
What term describes the accidental capture of non-target species like dolphins and turtles?
What is Bycatch.
True or False: Some fishing nets are big enough to fit several airplanes inside.
True
What percentage of the earth is covered by oceans and seas?
What is 70%
Which fish is caught the most in commercial fishing?
What are anchovies.
What is the main environmental issue caused by bottom trawling?
What is destruction of ocean floor habitats.
This many Loggerhead and Leatherback Turtles are killed by bycatch each year.
What is 250 thousand.
Overfishing has affected this tuna's population negatively by up to 97%.
What is Blue Fin Tuna.
What continent relies the most on commercial fishing for food?
What is Asia.
What percentage of plastic pollution are attributed to offshore fishing and aquaculture activities?
What is 75-86%.
What is the most expensive fish sold through commercial fishing?
The act of dragging a weighted net along the sea floor is called what?
What is bottom trawling.
What is the commercial fishing business work annually?
What is 400 billion.
What percent of the world mangrove population are destroyed by fish and shrimp farms?
What is 38%.
Name the 4 issues from commercial fishing listed in our slides.
What are Pollution, Population decline, Habitat Destruction and Bycatch.
Name the 2 things we must eliminate or reduce according to the Life Below Water mission plan?
What are Pollution and Overfishing.
Which country in the world sells the most fish?
How many acres of sea bottom are destroyed by bottom trawling every year?
What is 2.4 billion.
How many metric tons of fish are caught yearly just from bycatch?
What is 38 million.