GENERAL FISHERIES
___________ is the only freshwater sardine in the world, and it can only be found in Taal Lake.
Tawilis/Sardinella tawilis
DO is one of the most important water quality parameter in aquaculture. DO stand for?
Dissolved Oxygen
FMA is a bay, gulf, lake, or any other fishery area that may be delineated for fishery resource management purposes. FMA stand for?
Fisheries Management Area
Refers to the people who are directly or personally and physically engaged in taking and/or culturing and processing fishery and/or aquatic resources.
Fisherfolk
Is the reduction or removal of the water content of the fish down to the point where microorganisms cannot grow and multiply.
Drying
The world's largest fish.
Whale Shark/Butanding (Rhincodon typus)
RAS is a technology where water is recycled and reused after mechanical and biological filtration and removal of suspended matter and metabolites. RAS stands for?
Recirculating Aquaculture System
EAFM is an integrated management approach across land, water, and natural resources that promotes both sustainable use and conservation of the systems that are already connected in the nature/environment. EAFM stand for?
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management
EEZ is an area beyond or adjacent to the territorial sea which shall not extend beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines. EZZ stand for?
Exclusive Economic Zone
Is a method of preserving fish by the application of smoke to the product?
Smoking
What fish is featured in the 50-peso Philippine bill?
Giant Trevally/Maliputo (Caranx ignobilis)
It is a unique farming method that combines aquaculture, the practice of raising fish, with hydroponics, the method of growing plants in a soil-less environment.
Aquaponics
These fish are born in freshwater, then migrate to the ocean as juveniles where they grow into adults before migrating back into freshwater to spawn.
Anadromous fish
What part of a Philippine fishing boat provides buoyancy and stability?
Outrigger/Katig
PSP is a naturally occurring marine biotoxin that is produced by some species of microscopic algae. PSP stand for?
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning
What is the largest species of dolphin?
Orca or Killer Whale (Orcinus orca)
Refers to an enclosure that is either stationary or floating made up of nets or screens sewn or fastened together and installed in the water with an opening at the surface or covered and held in a place by wooden/bamboo posts or various types of anchors and floats.
Fish Cage
Refers to an aquatic organism that can tolerate a wide range of salinity.
Euryhaline Organisms
A device consisting of a floating raft anchored by a weighted line with suspended materials such as palm fronds to attract pelagic and schooling species.
Fish Aggregating Device/Payao
SSOP is a procedure that ensures sanitary conditions in food processing establishments. SSOP stand for?
Sanitation Standard Operating Procedure
A toxin produced by eating a puffer fish.
Tetrodotoxin
This is a phase of aquaculture that produces and raises fish fry and fingerlings.
Hatchery
Cnidae is the stinging apparatus used to capture prey and defend against predators. What is the most common type of cnidae found in Cnidarians?
Nematocysts
What is the name of the celestial body that is commonly used for navigation due to its consistent position in the sky?
Polaris/North Star
The progressive stiffening of muscle shortly after death.
Rigor Mortis