Fisheries in Deep Trouble
This assignment has two parts.
Part I:
Access an article from Natural History Magazine (October 2007) called Deep Trouble
(http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/features/301170/deep-trouble). Read all 3 pages of the article and answer the following questions in your own words:
- How did the author, Dr. Richard Haedrich, first become interested in deep-sea fish?
- What is the main reason for deep-sea fish vulnerability? Explain why deep-sea fish have this adaptation.
- How does bottom-trawling gear for deep-water fishing work?
- What does it mean to have a sustainable fishery? Why was it difficult to determine this in the deep sea?
- Based on their research, why were the greatest declines found in the smallest species?
- What happened to the recent resolution to ban bottom trawling in international waters? What other problems exist for preventing bottom trawling?
Part II:
Access the Overfishing website (http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-overfishing/ (Links to an external site.)) and in your own words, answer the following questions:
- What is overfishing?
- Why is overfishing a problem?
- What can you do to help?
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