HUM 325 Lecture 2: Jan 20 2016
3 Mar 2016
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Hum 325 humanities and the natural world lecture notes. Scale asymmetries: (p. 603 pitcher) ancient method of capturing tuna in. Individual transferable quotas: the itq system evolved as a way of avoiding the detrimental effects that ensure when an overall limit of total. Allowable catch (tac) is placed on a given fishery. Conventional wisdom: accepted: accepted set of ideas that experts and leigh people assume (slightly negative connotation); reflects an attitude that assumes that our knowledge will always be incomplete. By-catch: fish/other special unintentionally caught while fishing certain target species. Data fouling: any kind of corruption of data pertaining to quantities of fish captured in a fishery. Price-dumping: when you get information from shore that the price for those fish that day has fallen so you dump them overboard. High grading: discarding fish of certain quality because you only get a certain allotment per day. Mean trophic level: fisheries count 5 trophic levels.
