Hot Topic: Effects of Climate Variability on Fisheries part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part A: Short Term Variability: El Niño El Niño is an abnormal warming of surface ocean waters in the eastern tropical Pacific that occurs approximately every 3 to 7 years. The phenomenon was named El Niño ...

Plenty of Fish in the Sea? part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part B: Exploring Fishing Distribution Data People have been catching fish from the ocean for thousands of years, but it was only recently (in the 1950s) that anyone started keeping records of the numbers and ...

Plenty of Fish in the Sea? part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part C: Processing Fish Fish are not only caught or grown in aquaculture for human consumption, although it is the major reason. In 2016, 12% of fish captured or grown went to uses other than human consumption. ...

Gone Fishing part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Introduction For as long as people have lived near water, people have fished. Sadly, in many instances, the history of fishing is paralleled by a history of overfishing. According to the 2018 Report of Status of ...

And On His Farm He Had Some Fish part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part B: Trends in Aquaculture Aquaculture has been the fastest growing segment of food production in the world. Global aquaculture grew from a production of below 1 million metric tons in the early 1950s, to 110.1 ...

Are You Going to Eat That? part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Introduction As you learned in the previous investigation, overfishing has played a major role in the decline in the total number and diversity of fish in the sea since 1950. According to the The State of World ...

Nitrates and Phosphates and Algae, Oh My! part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part A: Making an Algal Bloom Because algae and other planktonic species are the primary producers upon which the rest of the marine food chain depends, it is important to understand why algal blooms occur and ...

Oh What a Tangled Web: Ecosystem-Based Management part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Introduction Food is one of the most important resources humans derive from the oceans. Sustainable production of healthy and abundant seafood requires healthy marine ecosystems. Unfortunately, modern fishing ...

To Fish or Not to Fish? part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part B: Gulf of California: Aquarium of the World Renowned ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau once called the Gulf of California the "aquarium of the world." Nestled between the Baja California peninsula ...

Plenty of Fish in the Sea? part of EarthLabs:Fisheries
Part A: Exploring Biodiversity Maps People have been catching fish from the ocean for thousands of years. It was only recently (in the 1950's) that anyone started keeping records of the numbers and types of ...