Fishery Management
A device used by fisheries to catch large populations of fish. Often dragged through the water.
Drift net
Within how many miles are fisheries normally found from the coast?
200 miles.
This is the name given to non-target fish or organisms caught when trying to catch target stock.
Bycatch
This fish is high in mercury and account for 33% of mercury poisoning in the United States.
Tuna
These are added to nets to try to decrease the amount of non-target species caught.
Bycatch reduction devices.
This organization regulates fisheries in the United States
NOAA
The three components of fisheries
The resource (fishery stocks), the people, and the habitat
The percentage of all fish caught that are considered bycatch.
40%
Aquaculture
Name 1 type of bottom dwelling fish
Flounder, haddock, or cod
Fish are attracted to seamounts because of a concentrated amount of this organism.
Plankton
This is the name for fish that are not as desirable as target stock, but have been fished as target populations have decreased.
Trash fish
3 symptoms someone with mercury poisoning could show.
Sleep disturbance, tremors, memory loss, motor issues, hair thinning, numbness in appendages, depression, hypertension
The term meaning "fish without rice"
Sashimi
3 sustainable practices of fisheries
3 of the following: BRD, size limits, number limits, breeder limits, on/off seasons.
The three types of fisheries.
Commercial, recreational, and subsistence
The trophic levels where most of the target stock are from.
What is secondary consumer or teritiary consumer.
5 types of fish that are high in mercury
bluefin tuna, swordfish, king mackerel, wild salmon, orange roughy, marlin, shark, grouper, Bigeye tuna, American eel
This term means a country has rights to fish within 200 miles from their shoreline
The difference between overfishing and overfished.
Overfishing- the population is currently being fished past its maximum sustainable yield.
Overfished- the population has declined significantly and can not recover in the near future.
7 of the top 10 United States fishery species.
Shrimp, Tuna, Salmon, Pollock, Catfish, Tilapia, Crab, Cod, Clams, or Flatfish (flounder and haddock)
The organization that puts stamps on fish in the grocery stores to show it is from a sustainable fishery.
MSC stamp or "certified sustainable seafood" stamp
Liver bile and feces.
The term meaning "cone shaped hand roll"
Temaki