Overfishing

3. Dried and salted herring roe sacs that are considered a Japanese delicacy.
7. atching and keeping fish using a variety of fishing methods.
8. A science in which man-made facilities and scientific methods are used to rear marine animals and plants.
10. A species of fish characterized by its flatness; they are large with a width of about one-third their length.
13. Non-targeted fish species and marine life caught incidentally by fishing vessels – whether in nets or otherwise.
14. A satellite positioning system used for navigation in bad weather. Boats equipped with a Loran are usually safer than ones without it.
15. A slang term used to describe anyone who is working their first season on a boat. Inbreakers usually earn only a partial crew share for part of the first season and then work up to better pay (full crew share).
16. A harvesting technique employing fine-filament nets that are set across the path of migrating salmon.

1. The movement of a species from one area to another. In Alaska the largest migration is the salmon migration, where fish move from saltwater to their freshwater spawning grounds.
2. A harvesting method used when fishing halibut and other bottomfish. A longline is anchored to the bottom and has many hooked gangions connected to it.
4. When too many fish are taken out of the ocean it creates an imbalance that can erode the food web and lead to a loss of other important marine life.
5. meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
6. Another name for pink salmon.
9. The area, fishing method, and time period in which a specific species of fish is harvested.
11. A frozen block of groundfish fillets.
12. The “gofer” on a fishing vessel.