WorksheetsOverfishing
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is "overfishing"?
Fishing out of season
Catching fish faster than they can replenish
Catching fish from the top of the food chain
Catching more fish than what people eat
What is bycatch?
Catching other sea life than what you were aiming to catch
Fish caught as the ships go by
Fish that escapes out of nets
Fish caught at the very end of the fishing season
What types of technology are used for fishing?
Radar and sonar
Spotter planes
Flash freezing
All of the above
Made up of long fishing poles (main lines) with a second line beneath it. The second line is clipped onto the main line at intervals and has several baited hooks on it. Depending on the fishery, the line can have up to 3,000 hooks on it and be 150 km (93 miles) long.
Bottom Trawling
Gillnets
Longlines
Blasting
True or false: If a fish stock is low, it means they have been overfished.
true
false
What are strategies that can be implemented to reduce/prevent overfishing?
Fishing quotas
Establishing laws
Marine protected areas
International standards for mesh size of nets
banning certain kinds of nets
What is a marine protected area?
An area where people can catch fish
An area where all fishing activities are prohibited
An area where only some fish species are allowed to be caught
An are where people can swim and snorkel
What is a fishing quota?
The number of fish that is not allowed to be fish in a fishery.
The money fishing companies get for catching fish
The maximum quantity of fish that is allowed to be removed from a fishery.
What are the effects of overfishing?
Drop in the fish population and fish species going extinct
Threatens the food availability as many people rely on fish as a source of food
Loss of jobs in the fish industry
People earning more money
New species being discovered
What are the causes of overfishing?
Massive demand for fish due to an increasing world population.
The use of modern technology (such as electronic fish finders)
Lack of international laws to control the quantity of fish that people may take from the world's oceans.
Fish being advertised as a healthy source of food.
