Used with purse-seine fishing and spots schools of fish from the air.
What is a Spotter airplane?
100
This place has lost half of its coastal and inland wetlands since 1900.
What is the United States
100
Species that migrate into an ecosystem or are deliberately or accidentally introduced into an ecosystem by humans.
What is Invasive Species?
100
Where does the greatest marine biodiversity occur.
What is Coral Reefs?
100
This is a group of Marine animals ranging from the 3 foot porpoise to the 100 foot blue whale.
What is Cataceans?
200
Used to catch surface-dwelling species such as tuna, mackerel, anchovies, and herring, which tend to feed in schools near the surface or in shallow areas.
What is Purse-Seine Fishing?
200
92 percent of this place's original wetlands have been lost.
What is New Zealand?
200
Highly prolific fish, that may be the next invader of the Great Lakes and have no natural predators in the Great Lakes.
What is Asian Carp?
200
Acronym used by conservation biologists for the six most important secondary causes of premature extinction.
What is HIPPCO?
200
This species was driven to the brink of extinction by over harvesting.
What is the giant blue whale?
300
Used to catch fishes and shellfish-especially shrimp, cod, flounder, and scallops-that live on or near the ocean floor. It involves dragging a funnel-shaped net held open at the neck along the ocean bottom.
What is Trawler fishing?
300
During our lifetime wetlands may be destroyed by this.
What is rising sea levels?
300
In 1986, larvae arrive in ballast water discharged from a European ship near Detroit, Michigan. This thumbnail-sized mollusk reproduces rapidly and has no known natural enemies in the Great Lakes.
What is Zebra Mussels?
300
Not among the world's biodiversity hotspots and do not contain a large number of species but require protection because of the important ecosystem services they provide for coastal dwellers.
What is Mangroves?
300
This commission was set up to regulate the whaling industry.
What is the International Whaling Commission?
400
Involves putting out lines up to 130 kilometers long, hung with thousands of baited hooks. This technique hook and kill large numbers of endangered species.
What is Longlining?
400
This policy allows for the destruction of existing wetlands as long as an equal area of the same type of wetlands is created or restored?
What is mitigation banking.
400
They reached the western lakes through the Welland Canal in Canada as early as 1920. This parasite attaches itself to almost any kind of fish and kills the victim by sucking out its blood.
What is Sea lamprey?
400
Fish species are threatened from overfishing, water pollution, wetland destruction, and excessive removal of water from rivers and lakes.
What is Biological extinction?
400
This country hunts and kills over 1,000 whales a year for "scientific purposes."
What is Japan?
500
Fish are caught by huge drifting nets that can hang as deep as 15 meters below the surface and extend to 64 kilometers long. This method can lead to overfishing of the desired species and may trap and kill large quantities of unwanted fish.
What is Drift-net fishing?
500
This Florida project, approved in 1990, set out to be the largest ecological restoration project ever.
What is the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Project (CERP)?
500
In 1989, a larger and potentially more destructive species invaded the Great Lakes, probably discharged in the ballast water of a Russian freighter. It can survive at greater depths and tolerate more extreme temperatures.
What is Quagga Mussel?
500
About how much have humans explored of the Earth's ocean?
What is 5%?
500
This type of place is established to enable ecosystems and the species that inhabit them time to recover.