Grade 9 U4RW1 Where Have All Fish Gone

Choose the topics that you think the reading passage covers.

Choose tools that were used in the traditional fishing.

If fishermen catch too many fish, some species of fish will be gone and _______.

When did people become interested in eating fish?

Traditional gear used by local fishermen is harming the ocean environment.

What percentage of big ocean fish populations has now gone?

Choose the species of fish that harm the ocean's ecosystem.

Choose the species of fish that are considered as 'predators'.

There are _______ predators left.

What statistics does the writer use to show that overfishing is a real problem?

This graph shows the amount of bluefin tuna caught by _________ in Pacific ocean.

Which information isn't shown in this graph?

According to the graph, which countries were the only ones to fish for Pacific bluefin tuna before the 1970s?

Approximately how many metric tons of Pacific bluefin tuna were caught in 2012?

________ began catching Pacific bluefin tuna in the 1970s

When was the lowest catch of Pacific bluefin tuna recorded? When was the highest?

In the 2000s, most of the world’s Pacific bluefin tuna was caught by ______ and ______ .