Importance of fishing
Canada's fish economy in Billions
$6 - $10 Billion
The Eastern Collapse happened in this year.
What is 1992?
Definition of overfishing
What is the depletion of fish stock?
SYM stands for this
What is Sustainable Yield Management?
Fish farming's alternate name
What is aquaculture?
What is 1492?
Best temperature for salmon to swim in
What is about 7 degrees?
Another species that fishing can damage
What is turtles, coral, sharks, dolphins, etc.
Groundfish, pelagic fish, and shellfish
This federal minister of fisheries and oceans halted Atlantic Cod fishing
What is John Crosbie?
The name of the sea salmon would swim in if the B.C. coast water gets too warm
The ecolabel on seafood caught sustainably
What is the blue Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) ecolabel?
Biggest fish exporter worldwide
China
An examples of destructive fishing practice
What is bottom trawling.
The year the Salmon Treaty was signed, and by who
What is 1999, by the US and Canada?
What is the maximum catch that can be extracted in the long term so that the resource doesn't deplete?
Class name of cartilaginous fishes (You can spell it)
Class Chondrichthyes
5 major causes for the east coast fishery collapse.
What is overfishing, uncontrolled foreign fishing, destructive fishing practices, improvement of technology and changes to ecosystem?
The year of a massive catch, and how big
1990, with a catch of 800,000 tonnes
2 reasons why overfishing might be difficult
What are:
- Fish population are less reliable since fish populations fluctuate every season
- Climate change
- Economic Pressures
- Technological advances