Aquaculture Questions
1. What is aquaculture?
Aquaculture is the farming of sea or freshwater animals and plants.
2. What percentage of seafood do we import into Southern California?
25%
3. What is stock enhancement?
The processes in which aquadelic life is raised and then released to increase its population.
4. Do we have enough land in Orange County, California to establish large fish farms? Yes or No Explain.
There isn’t very much land in OC, California that establishes large fish farms because land is very expensive here.
5. Do aquarium fish come from fish farms? Yes or No. Explain.
There are some aquarium fish that come from fish farms because all fish farms specialize in growing fish.
6. Why is aquaculture needed in our society?…show more content… 7. Why are we "seeing" a decline in White Seabass populations off our coast from 50,000 lbs of caught White Seabass during 1980's to approximately 10,000 lbs of White Seabass being caught now?
To many seabass were caught and now there's not very many of them and the ones being caught are not fully grown.
8. Why are we growing White Seabass in the Innovation Lab?
Where working with white sea bass in the lab because we're reproducing them and letting them fully grown to have the later on released to the ocean.
9. What is the most popular aquacultured species of fish in the United States?
Carp & 2. catfiash
10. How will El Nino affect our coastal kelp forest ecosystems?
It affects the kelp forest where coral and fish hide or live in.
11. What is the ecological range of the White Seabass?
The ecological range of the the White Seabass is from Northern California to Magdalena Bay.
12. What ecosystem do White Seabass live in?
White Seabass live in kelp beds banks of shore, reefs, and ocean.
13. Why do we "tag" the White Seabass?
We tag White Seabass to track them and see if the project does actually
