Fishing: all about life and livelihoods

Question 1

By weight, how much of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage patch is estimated to come from ghost fishing gear?

Accepted Answer

46%

Question 2

What is bycatch?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 3

In 1950, 19 million tonnes of fish and seafood was caught across the world. By 2016 this figure had...

Accepted Answer

Increased by 5 times

Question 4

One in twenty people on earth relies on fishing for their livelihood

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

What percentage of global marine stocks were overfished in 2015?

Accepted Answer

33%

Question 6

Fish and seafood are more traded globally than

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 7

What is it called when one species of fish is fished too much?

Accepted Answer

Overfishing

Question 8

When coral reefs are in trouble, the coral turns white, in a process called coral bleaching, caused by

Accepted Answer

The effect of climate change in heating our ocean

Question 9

100% of the ocean has been affected by humans

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

All species of fish in the ocean today are overfished

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

What happens when too many of one species of fish is fished too much?

Accepted Answer

The fish can't reproduce to recover their numbers

Question 12

The ocean covers ___ % of the Earth's surface

Accepted Answer

70

Question 13

Overfishing can threaten our global food security

Accepted Answer

True

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