This month's quiz: Marine Life
1. True or False: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that at least 60 percent of the world's 200 most valuable marine fish species are either overfished or fished to the limit.
- True
- False
2.Estimated weight of non-target marine fish and other wildlife, know as bycatch, that are killed and thrown back into the sea each year:
- 10 Tones
- 500 Tones
- 1 million Tones
- 20 million Tones
3. True or False: The population of swordfish in the north Atlantic Ocean has declined approximately 70 percent in the past two decades and continues to decline due to overfishing.
- True
- False
4. True or False: More than ten percent of the planet's marine surface has been designated as protected.
- True
- False
5. What is the percentage of all the pollution in the sea that originates from land, including sewage, industrial waste and agricultural runoff?
- 10 percent
- 30 percent
- 60 percent
- 80 percent
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