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1. Who are the key "players" in the politics of the world's fisheries? In other words, who has a stake in fisheries? Which players' viewpoints are represented by this article? [Read the assignment summary for hints.]
2. What is your intuition about the validity or "truth" of the viewpoint expressed in the article?
3. Name three ways that the fishing process became more industrialized after World War Two.
4. Single-species stock assessments are techniques used to estimate how fish of one species (such as Red Snapper) respond to fishing and to figure out the maximum level of fishing that can be sustained by that species without leading to overfishing.
What are four problems that limit the usefulness of single-species stock assessments?
5. What are two possible causes for the first collapse of the Peruvian anchoveta fishery in 1971-72?
6. Why is "fishing down marine food webs" considered to NOT be a good thing by the authors?
How does "fishing down marine food webs" simplify marine food webs?
7. Why have generally longer-lived demersal (bottom) fishes tended to decline faster than shorter-lived, pelagic (open water) fishes?
8. Of the 363 million square kilometers of ocean on this planet, less than 7%-the continental shelves-are shallower than 200 m and some of this shelf area is covered by ice. The biological productivity of the shelves supports what percentage of global fish catches? What part of the ocean supports the rest?
9. What are the three reasons that aquaculture does not have the potential to meet the growing demand for fish or even to "feed the world"?
10. What do the authors suggest needs to be done to reverse the trends in global overfishing? What has been lacking so far to implement these changes?
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