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6. Cod wars increased the boundaries to ? around fishing waters
7. Which is the most important reasons to mange wild fish populations?
- To reduce unsustainable environmental cost of industry
- Ensure a sustainable supply of fish
- Reduce threats to rare species and ecosystems
- Prevent extinction
8. Mackerel, cod, haddock and tuna are important commercial species where
- North West Pacific
- South Pacific
- North East Atlantic
- South Atlantic
9. The development of railways allowed the transportation of fish into London happened when?
10. Beam trawls were developed into what in 1895?
- Otter trawls
- Drift nets
- Bench trawls
11. In what year did the North Sea Fishery collapse?
12. Which is not a main objective of CPF?
- Ensuring the survival of 10 threatened fish species
- Sustainable fisheries management
- Securing maximum sustainable yields of fish stocks
- Implementation of an ecosystems based approach?
13. Spotting planes are banned
14. Which is not a challenge of fish stock assessment?
- Bycatch not recorded
- International competition
- Fish migrate across national boundaries
- Food web collapse
- Fish move around
- Fishermen lie
15. Which is not one of the 4 parameters used?
- Recruitments
- Landings
- Spawning stock biomass
- Sustainable yield
- Fishing mortality
16. What was created in 1996 in response to the collapse?
- Atlantic Fishery corporation
- ICCAT
- WWF
17. What year did the Sea Fishing Act take place?
18. Which is true of the British North Sea Trawler Fleet?
- Activities instigated the establishments of fisheries, science and regulation
- Exploited one of the best fishing grounds in the world
- All
- Played a private role in British foreign policy
- Benefited the most from the industrial revolution
19. By what year was tuna a large scale commercial fishing industry?
20. What fish is a warm blooded apex predator that used to always be abundant in UK waters?
- Atlantic blue fin tuna
- Mackerel
- Cod
- Herring
