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1/11 Overfishing/Aquaculture AP

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Ending Overfishing

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Think about it (Ecology review): What are the impacts of overfishing on the ecosystem beyond a reduction in the amount of fish available as food?

How I fell in love with a fish

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How do the simple decisions of choosing what to eat everyday affect the world?

Urban Aquaculture

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What is a recirculating system?

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Question 23
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Describe the benefits of aquaculture.

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Describe the drawbacks of aquaculture.

Question 25
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Describe how shrimp aquaculture has impacted mangroves in Honduras and Nicaragua in the Gulf of Fonseca.

The current number of people living on the planet is closest to ______.
10 billion
7 billion
6 billion
5 billion
What is the largest source of food in the world?
The range
The forest
The laboratory
The ocean
It is projected that Earth will have a collapse of fisheries in the ocean within ______ years.
20
100
50
150
__________ are one method used to harvest fish.  Some are large enough to carry 500 tons of fish.
Beta nets
Hooks
Dynamite
Trawling nets
What is bycatch?
Small boats used to keep large trolling boats on course
The type of net used to catch marine life during large scale trolling missions
Animals that escape nets and/or hooks in a popular fishing area
Marine creatures that are incidentally caught
What is 'fish farming' called?
Aquaculture
Hydroponics
Aquaponics
Hydroculture
What do most farmed fish eat?
Manmade fish substitute
Smaller fish
A blend of seaweed and krill
Tiny organisms that happen to float into the farms
Why did Dan Barber fall out of love with the first fish?
Because he became a vegetarian
Because he found out the company was feeding their fish chicken pellets
He never fell out of love with the first fish
Because he didn't like the taste anymore
Where was the location of the second fish Dan Barber fell in love with?
South of France
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Veta la Palma fish farm in Spain
San Francisco, California
In 1982, how did Barber's friend Miguel and a Spanish company with an environmental conscious completely reverse the ecological destruction of the Veta la Palma land?
They reversed the flow of water
They flooded the canals
They created a 27,000 acre fish farm
All of the above
What made Miguel's fish taste so good that Barber could not forget about how much he loved the fish?
Freshly squeezed lemons
Fish skin
The fish eat what they would eat in the wild
Chicken thigh meat
In reference to tackling the world hunger crisis, what does Barber ask us to consider?
How we increase mass food production
How we create conditions that enable every community to feed itself
How the Agribusiness model is the key for the future
How exporting food from farms that deplete resources is economically sound
What is aquaculture?
Growing anials in wide open spaces
Growing animals in concentrated feeding operations
Growing plants and animals in water environments
Growing plants and animals in land environments
What percentage of the world's fish species are either fully exploited or depleted?
25%
50%
75%
90%
How much of the world's seafood comes from aquaculture?
25%
50%
75%
90%
Conventional fish farms are criticized for
being organic
wasting resources
taking up too much space
using antibiotics
polluting
How are solid wastes removed from a recirculating system?
Biological filter
Net filter
Hand filter
Mechanical filter
The biological filter breaks down what chemical?
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Ammonia (NH3)
Ammonium (NH4)
Methane (CH4)
What consumes the nitrogen byproducts of the recirculating system?
Fish
Shrimp
Plants
Humans