Ecosystem overfishing
What are the main 3 affected organisms
What is Atlantic Cod, Herring, and California Sardines
Overfishing
What is The practice of catching fish at a rate faster than they can reproduce and replenish their population, leading to the depletion of marine ecosystems
What was the percent in the 1960s
What is 25% to 50%
How many metric tons of fish get caught a year in the ocean
What is 90 million metric tons
Extinction
What is the complete disappearance of a species, subspecies, or group of organisms, occurring when the last member dies
What happened in the 1960s was it underfished, MSF, or overfished
What is Underfished
What are the 3 most common type of fishing types
What is fishing traps, nets, fishing rods
Ecosystem
What is a community of living organisms interacting with each other and their non-living environment within a specific area
Over time did the percent of fishing go up or stay or down
What is down
Biomass
What is the total weight or volume of a fish population
Recruitment
What is the number of new fish born into a population each year