Fish Conservation Trivia

SHARKS and RAYS

100

What do you call an event or occurrence of a dead or live shark, ray or skate on the beach or in shallow water and  is unable to return to its natural habitat without assistance.

Stranding Event

200

The largest of the batoid fishes. It is easily distinguishable from other batoid fishes by its pair of cephalic fins.

Manta Rays

300

What is the scientific name of the largest shark, and indeed largest of any fishes alive today. They are called the gentle giants of the sea.

Rhincodon typus

400

• From what distance can sharks detect blood?

5 Meters

500

Fisheries Administrative Order on the ban on the taking or catching, selling, purchasing and possessing, transporting and exporting of whale sharks and manta rays whether dead or alive, in any state or from whether raw or processed.

FAO # 193 series of 1998

REGULATIONS AND OBLIGATIONS

100

As part of its duty to protect the abundance of vital marine resources in our seas, the DA-BFAR continues to implement several science-based and participatory marine conservation measures. A prominent facet of these efforts is the enforcement of ________________ in major fishing grounds in the country.

Close fishing season

200

• DA-BFAR continues its relentless campaign against Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. This is one of the innovations of the bureau to optimized monitoring system that will enable BFAR to track and communicate with Philippine-flagged fishing vessels in real time on a national scale, integrating communication, licensing and law enforcement functionalities.

Integrated Marine Monitoring System ( IMEMS ).

300

A Fisheries Administrative Order on the establishment of Fisheries Management Areas for the conservation and Management of fisheries in Philippine waters.

FAO 263

400

• A Proclamation declaring the month of September as the Maritime and Archipelagic Nation Awareness Month ( MANA MO) and amending Proclamation No. 176 ( series 1963) to transfer the observance of the Fish Conservation of the Fish Conservation Week from the third week of October to the 3rd week of September of every year.

Proclamation No. 316, series of 2017

500

• A Regulation ( FAO ) on the catching, possession, transporting, selling, trading and exporting of Puerulus, Juvenile and gravid Spiny Lobster ( Palinuridae ).

FAO 265

FISH HABITATS

100

• The discoloration of coral that results from the loss of a corals symbiotic algae or the degradation of the algae’s photosynthetic pigment caused by increased seawater temperature, ocean acidification, and exposure to sodium cyanide and other chemicals.

Coral Bleaching

200

• Often described as the “lungs of the sea” that helps mitigate the effects of climate change through carbon sequestration by storing up to 18% of the oceanic carbon.

Seagrass

300

__________ are lateral breathing roots that grow upward out of the mud and water to function as the site of oxygen intake for the submerged primary root system of mangroves.

Pneumatophores

400

This refers to the organic carbon that is captured and stored by the oceans and coastal ecosystems, particularly by vegetated ecosystems – seagrass meadows, tidal marshes and mangrove forests. Also refers to “biologically driven carbon fluxes and storage in marine systems that are amenable to management

Blue Carbon

500

• What section in the Fisheries Code RA 10654  that states “It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to gather, possess, commercially transport, sell or export ordinary, semi-precious and precious corals whether raw or in processed form, except for scientific or research purposes. It shall also be unlawful for any person or corporation or entity to commit  any activity that damage coral reefs.

Section 96 of RA 10654

GUESS THE WORDS

100

Meaning of SAAD

Special Area for Agricultural Development

200

Meaning of EAFM 

Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management

 

300

Meaning of MANA MO

Maritime Archipelagic National Awareness Month

400

Meaning of CITES

Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna

500

Meaning of NAFMIP

National Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization and Industrialization Plan

RANDOM

100

True or False: An Octopus has 1 heart?

False. An octopus has 3 hearts

200

True of False: Electric Eels have enough electricity to kill a horse?

True

300

True or False: Sharks are the only fish that have eyelids?

True

400

What percent of a jellyfish is water?

95%

500

What is the largest sea turtle?

Leatherback turtle