Across
- 2. Decrease in fish numbers due to human pressure
- 4. Government‑set limit on how many fish can be caught
- 6. Technology used to locate schools of fish underwater
- 8. Unintended species caught during fishing operations
- 9. Seasonal movement of fish disrupted by overfishing
- 11. Scientific evaluation of fish populations
- 14. Variety of life in the ocean that declines when species disappear
- 15. An organized industry or area where fish are harvested
- 17. Lost or abandoned fishing gear that continues trapping marine life
- 18. Long‑term ability of fish populations to remain healthy
- 19. Protected ocean zones where fishing is restricted or banned
- 20. Interconnected community of organisms and their environment
Down
- 1. When a fish population becomes too small to recover
- 3. Fish farming used to reduce pressure on wild stocks
- 5. Practice of removing fish faster than they can reproduce
- 7. Destruction of breeding grounds due to human activity
- 10. Fishing that violates regulations or occurs in restricted waters
- 12. Maximum population size an environment can support
- 13. Fishing method that drags nets along the seafloor
- 16. Network of predator‑prey relationships in the ocean