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17 Cards in this Set
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Commercial extinction
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- overfishing, leads to a temporary depletion of fish stocks, as long as area is allowed to recover.
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Bycatch
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non targeted species that have been caught.
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CITIES
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Convention or International Trade in Endangered Species
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Global treaty on migratory species(1979), US endangered species act(1973), and International convention on biological diversity(1995)-
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designed to protect species.
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Cetaceans
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- an order of mostly marine mammals ranging in sixe from the three foot porpoise to the 100 foot blue whale.
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IWC
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International whaling commission. Has 49 nation members
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EEZ
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Exclusive economic zone. The area that a country is able to use. 200 miles off shore.
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MPA
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Marine protected areas.
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Integrated coastal management
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- a community based effort to develop and use coastal resources more sustainably.
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Adaptive ecosystem management
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- develop workable, cost-effective, adaptive solutions.
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Maximum sustain yield
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involves using a mathematical model to project the maximum number of fish that can be harvested annually from a fish stock without causing a population drop.
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Optimum sustained yield
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OSY attempts to take into account interactions with other species and to provide more room for error.
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Multi species management
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takes into account their competitive and predator-prey interactions.
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ITQ’S-
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individual transfer quotas- help control access to fisheries. Govt. gives each fishing vessel owner a specified percentage of the total allowable catch for a fishery in a given year.
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Wild rivers
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rivers or segments of rivers that are relatively inaccessible.
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Scenic rivers
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are free of dams, mostly undeveloped accessible in some places by roads, and of great scenic value
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Recreational rivers
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- rivers that are readily accessible by roads and that may gave some dams or development.
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