BIOS10112 Study Guide - Final Guide: Scuba Diving, Ecosystem Services, Marine Stewardship Council
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National environmental policy act: requires that federal agencies assess the environmental effects of building in a certain area. Ecosystem based fisheries management: this is an ecosystem approach to our fishing: maintain an (cid:862)old growth(cid:863) structure in fish populations, management boundaries should match natural boundaries, monitor and maintain seafloor habitats. Identify and maintain critical food-web connections: account for evolutionary changes caused by fishing. Clean power plan: sets the state to state carbon emissions rates for power plants goal is to reduce carbon emissions by 30% Lacey act: makes it illegal to import anything (wildlife, fish, wood, etc. ) into the united. The seafood success story of the chilean sea bass: In the 1990s, the patagonian toothfish, which was marketed as the chilean sea. Bass, became extremely popular: as a result, there was a lot of illegal fishing for this fish, which caused its abundance and average weight to drastically decrease.
