Living In The Environment, Loose-leaf Version
Living In The Environment, Loose-leaf Version
19th Edition
ISBN: 9781337100106
Author: G. Tyler Miller, Scott Spoolman
Publisher: Brooks Cole
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The definition of fishery. The three important harmful effects of overfishing. Describe the effects of trawler fishing, purse-seine fishing, long lining, and drift net fishing. Definition of bycatch and fish print. The percentage of the world’s commercial fisheries are fully exploited, over-exploited, or depleted. Summarize the story of the collapse of the Atlantic cod fishery. Describe what is happening to the large predatory fishes of the world and the reason for its importance. The harmful effects of the fishing industry’s shifting to lower trophic levels of marine food webs. Summarize the arguments for protecting sharks. Summarize the efforts to protect whales from overharvesting and extinction. Describe the status of sea turtles and explain the way in which human activities are threatening their existence. The reason why population of jellyfish is growing and the difference caused by them. They way in which it can be prevented from taking over much of the ocean.

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