13C Flashcards

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Orientation Clicks

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low frequency clicks used in echolocation that give an animal a general idea of its surroundings

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Discrimination Clicks

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high frequency clicks used in echolocation that give an animal a precise picture of a particular object

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Signature Whistles

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unique sound produced by a dolphin to identify an individual

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Melon

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oval mass of fatty waxy material in a dolphins head that functions tin directing and focusing the sounds used in echolocation

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Renewable Resources

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resources that can replenish themselves

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Stocks

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separate population of fish that is assumed to be reproductively isolated from others in range

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Tagging

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prosecute for monitoring the distribution and movement of animals in the environment

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Landings

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catch made by fishing vessels

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Fishing Effort

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measure of the number of vessels fishing, number of fishers working, number of hours spent fishing

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Overfishing

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catching fish faster than they can reproduce and replace themselves

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Trawl Nets

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large nets that are dragged along the sea bottom

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12
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EEZ

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the area of corn that a coastal nation controls

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Surimi

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fishery product made from alaskan pollock

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Destructive Fishing

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best choices, good alternatives, avoid

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Incidental catch(byctach)

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non commercial animals that are killed during fishing for commercial fishing

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trash fish

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term used for incidental fishing ?

17
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drift nets

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large nets that may stretch for as much as 60 kilometers

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tans

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individual sections of a drift net

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Aquaculture

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The use of aqua culture techniques to breed and raise marine organisms

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Monoculture

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The process of raising a single species in aqua culture

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Polyculture

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The process of raising several species together in aqua culture

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raft culture

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A form of aqua culture, in which juveniles of commercially valuable molluscs are attached to robes expended from rafts

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Eco-friendly aqua culture

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A type of aqua culture where the growing of fish or shellfish, do not have negative impacts on the environment; some positves are
1. Using waste to produce food for animals.
2. using waste as a fertilizer for plants
3. Using animals to minimize waste back to sea.

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problems with aquaculture

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  1. Pollution.
  2. Wild fish caught to feed cultured fish.
  3. Invasive species.
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Tuna
1. longlined- yellowfin, bigeye, albacore 2. hand lined- bluefin, albacore 3. purse seined- yellowfin, bluefin
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purse seines
huge nets that can be closed by pulling in a line, similar to the way a purse or a bag of marble is closed
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Marine mammal protection act
1972 to reduce e the number of marine mammals including dolphins killed in fisheries
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backing down
technique in which the skiff setting the purse seine backs up, causing the edge of the net to drop beneath the surface of the water allowing dolphins to escape
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ocean ranching
process in which young fish are raised in one’s and then returned to the sea to supplement natural populations
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desalination
process of removing salt from seawater
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sulfides
minerals containing sulfur
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same and gravel
extract them for: -cement -concrete -replenishing natural beaches -creating artificial beaches
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fossil fuels
fuels formed from the remains of organisms that lived millions of years ago
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meghan hydrate
ice that holds methane gas