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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Limits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the scientific name for cod?
(a) Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.
(b) Mircopterus salmoides floridanus.
(c) Gadus morhua.
(d) Pomoxis nigromaculatus.

2. What were the French fishing fleets called?
(a) Jette-beaux.
(b) Poisson de la Mer.
(c) Terre-Neuve.
(d) Bateaux Royales.

3. What is the name of the only tropical cod that remains today?
(a) Whiting.
(b) Cusk.
(c) Hake.
(d) Bregmaceros.

4. What is it called when a net is dragged along the ocean floor?
(a) Crabbing.
(b) Bottom trawling.
(c) Skim dragging.
(d) Deep sounding.

5. The first otter trawl was built in _____.
(a) Newfoundland.
(b) Iceland.
(c) Scotland.
(d) Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the fishing ground off the coast of Ireland called?

2. Jacques Cartier is credited for "discovering" the mouth of which river?

3. Who conjectured that cod was named after a husk of seeds because the female holds so many eggs?

4. What replaced nylon in gill nets?

5. What color of the meat of a cod is the result of sluggish muscle tissue?

(see the answer key)

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