1
Sampling and estimating fish populations.
Monitoring.
An international agreement that prohibits or limits trade of certain species, based on conservation status.
Uses the nitrogen cycle to grow both plants and fish together in the same system.
Aquaponics.
Whether the fish as wild-caught or farmed via aquaculture.
Method.
What does MSC stand for?
Marine Stewardship Council.
Annual catch limits are established at or below the maximum sustainable yield for each fishery.
Quotas
Parts of the ocean where no organisms can be legally harvested.
Marine Reserves.
Fish release waste, which bacteria decompose into ammonia.
Ammonification
Audited by the Marine Stewardship Council for sustainable practices.
MSC Certification.
What is returned to the fish?
Clean water.
Must be minimized to the "extent practicable". Requires the use of repellants special hooks, or escape doors in trawl nets for sharks, turtles, birds, and other sea creatures.
Bycatch.
Netted areas that fish are raised in from eggs.
Fish pens.
Different bacteria convert ammonia into nitrates.
Nitrification.
Certification from the Monterey Bay Aquarium based on the fishing practices used. Best, Good, Avoid.
What does MSA stand for?
Magnuson-Stevenson Fishery Conservation and Management Act.
Prevents the "taking" of any species identified and listed.
The Endangered Species Act.
Fish sewage and coliform bacteria may cause eutrophication and hypoxia.
Waste products.
Uptake of nitrates into plants through roots.
Assimilation.
What does CITES stand for?
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.
How many areas of the ocean can be legally harvested?
35 areas.
Prohibits the taking of mammals that rely on the ocean to survive.
The Marine Mammal Protection Act.
Grows organisms lower trophic levels in the fish waste stream.
Multi-trophic aquaculture.
Country the fish was caught from.
Source.
Food - corn, fishmeal. Antibiotics Supplements.
Inputs.
Country owns all fishing and mineral rights.
Exclusive Economic Zone.