Question

directions: read the passage and then answer the questions that follow.
sustainable fishing
overfishing
1 catching so many fish at a time can result in an immediate payoff for fishers. fishing this way consistently, however, leaves few fish of a species left in the ocean. if a fish population is small, it cannot easily replenish itself through reproduction.
2 taking wildlife from the sea faster than populations can reproduce is known as overfishing. purse seining, longlining, and many other types of fishing can also result in a lot of bycatch, the capture of unintended species. longlines intended to catch bluefin tuna, for instance, can ensnare birds, sea turtles, and other fish such as swordfish.
3 another fish species that has been overfished is chilean seabass, sometimes called patagonian toothfish. in the 1990s, this fish became extremely popular in restaurants across the united states and other countries, causing an increase in demand. the fish is native to the south pacific and south atlantic oceans, typically caught by longline in international waters. fishing in this area is regulated by international agreements, which are very difficult to enforce. illegal fishing— in this case catching fish in numbers high above internationally established limits—became widespread. the number of fish caught and the average size of the fish decreased, leading to even higher prices and greater incentive for illegal fishing.
chilean seabass is a long-lived (up to 50 years), slow-growing
complete the sentence with the best answer option in each dropdown list.
after analyzing the passage, you can conclude that hook-and-line and dropdown are ways to fish a wide variety of species thtext cut offycatch.
dropdown options: cast-net, purse seining

Explanation:

To solve this, we refer to the passage. In paragraph 2, it says "Purse seining, longlining, and many other types of fishing can also result in a lot of bycatch". The first dropdown is "hook - and - line" (related to longlining/hook - based methods), and from the options, "purse seining" is a method that causes bycatch and is used to fish many species, while "cast - net" isn't mentioned as a method with significant bycatch for a wide variety of species like purse seining is. So the correct option for the second dropdown is "purse seining".

Answer:

purse seining