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 dropdown and dropdown are ways to fish a ies that eliminate most bycatch.
options in dropdown: longlining, hook-and-line

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze the passage. The passage states that methods like purse seining and longlining have a lot of bycatch. Hook - and - line fishing is a more sustainable method with less bycatch (implied by the context of finding methods that eliminate most bycatch). So for the first dropdown, hook - and - line is a correct choice as it's a method with less bycatch. For the second, we need another method with low bycatch. Since longlining has high bycatch, but hook - and - line and other sustainable methods (though the other option here, if we assume, but from the dropdown, hook - and - line is selected first, and then we need to pick another. Wait, the first dropdown has hook - and - line selected. The second dropdown would need a method that also eliminates most bycatch. Since the passage contrasts methods with high bycatch (longlining, purse seining) with those with low bycatch. So the first blank is hook - and - line, and we need to find the second. But from the given, the first dropdown's selected option is hook - and - line, which is a method with less bycatch.

Answer:

First dropdown: hook - and - line (assuming the second dropdown would have another sustainable method, but based on the given, the first is hook - and - line)