Fishing
The type of fishing where fish enter a feeding frenzy and are pulled out of the water, one at a time.
What is pole fishing?
The highest amount of a species that can be harvested without diminishing the population for future years.
What is maximum sustainable yield?
Most aquaculture operations are based on this structure.
What are fish pens?
A place where the concentration of certain fish is high enough for commercial harvesting.
What is a fishery?
Where winds blow surface water aside and allow nutrient-rich water from below to rise up.
What is upwelling?
The place an organism occupies on a food chain.
What is trophic level?
The combination of aquaculture and hydroponics.
What is aquaponics?
Unwanted fish, birds, and mammals.
What is bycatch?
The type of fishing that uses long nets that span large expanses of open ocean surface water.
What is drift netting?
Each nation has exclusive rights over all marine resources discovered within these, and their territorial extent.
What are exclusive economic zones/200mi from the coast?
It's used as a source of nutrients for plants in aquaponics.
What is waste water from fish farming?
In the US, the annual catch limits are at this level compared to the maximum sustainable yield.
What is lower?
Deploys large nets around schools of fish identified from aerial surveys.
What is purse seining?
All nations have the freedom to use them.
What are international waters?
Aquaculture operations are vulnerable
to these.
What are antibiotic overuse and
manure?
This banned the taking and importing of marine mammals and products of marine mammals in the United States.
What is the Marine Mammal Protection Act?
Type of fishing where the net is weighted with chains or metal plates.
What is trawling?
They enforce catch limits.
What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration?
Farming marine organisms specifically.
What is mariculture?
They are the exclusive fishing zones that reach 12 miles off each coastline.
What are territorial waters?