Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Goals of management: - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. to provide recreational and commercial
opportunities
2. to conserve and protect the resource
Historically, fisheries mgmt has been an effort to balance ___ and ___ of fish. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Supply and demand
They have done this through: - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. species-based
2. enforcement of regulation
3. propagation
Supply and demand are based on the values of: - CORRECT ANSWER - commodity,
recreational, amenity, spiritual, scientific, cultural
The Fish Squeeze on natural populations (four H's) - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. Harvest
2. Hydropower
3. Hatchery
4. Habitat
Harvest controls through - CORRECT ANSWER - regulated and enforced limits on size,
creel, season, no kill
Habitat protects functional places by protecting the functional places of: - CORRECT
ANSWER - multiple scales
water quality and quantity
P/C/B- complexity
, water rights for wildlife
Hydropower concentrates on - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. passage and normalizing flows
2. decommissioning and removal- reclaiming floodplain pulse
Hatcheries (increase supply though:) - CORRECT ANSWER - captive breeding
mitigation
introductions
commercial aquaculture
Agro-industrial model of aquatic resource mgmt is insufficient to manage biodiversity because it
is: - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. single target species based
2. reactive
3. focuses on a limited set of values
Updated views: - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. ecosystem v species- based
2. adaptive mgmt to replace trial and error
3. the human factor
Key aspect of ecosystem mgmt: - CORRECT ANSWER - adaptive resource management
(ARM) whereby the approach is to be flexible to unanticipated and complex outcomes
Adaptive resource mgmt - CORRECT ANSWER - 1. information-based
2. Dynamic actions
Aquatic Resource Mgmt and Policy - CORRECT ANSWER - provides information to
shape decisions and policies