The reason reported global fish catch increased during the 80's and 90's while regional/local fisheries reported decreases.
What is bureaucrats in China falsified data?
100
Type of circulatory system.
What is open?
100
Life zone in which oysters are found.
What is intertidal zone?
100
Type of fertilization in which oysters release sperm and eggs into the water column where fertilization and development take place.
What is broadcast spawning?
200
The number of people who depend on fish for food.
What is 1.2 billion people?
200
Year the U.S. became the first nation to identify and end overfishing and also managed to increase seafood catch in the U.S.
What is 2011?
200
Young oysters that are newly attached to their substrate.
What is spat?
200
Reasons oysters are ecologically important.
What are: clarifying water promoting seagrass growth, absorb energy from waves that could erode shorelines, and provide food and habitat for numerous estuary organisms?
200
Historical uses for oysters.
What are food, decoration, tools, weapons, building materials, etc?
300
Organisms unintentionally harvested by fishing outfits.
What is bycatch?
300
When the U.S. may interfere with a seafaring vessel traveling within the U.S.'s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
What is when the ship threatens the natural resources of the EEZ?
300
What oysters eat.
What is plankton?
300
The term used for organisms, like oysters, that can survive a wide range of salinities.
What is euryhaline?
300
How oysters eat plankton.
What is filter feeding?
400
Using fishing practices that promote future growth in fish populations. Example-Alaskan fisheries.
What is sustainable fishing?
400
Ways the commercial fishing industry has attempted to deal with declining fish stocks. These methods have lead to further decline.
What are advancing technology, exploited new fisheries, and fish farming?