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Question #1
Are all tuna the same?
A.   NO
B.   YES
Question #2
What is the most endangered large fish species?
A.   Albacore
B.   Great White sharks
C.   Mahi mahi
D.   Swordfish
E.   Bluefin tuna
Question #3
How big can a bluefin tuna be?
A.   5 meters, 1 ton
B.   4 meters, ¾ ton
C.   2 meters, ¼ ton
D.   3 meters, ½ ton
E.   6 meters, 2 ton
Question #4
What is the body temperature of a bluefin?
A.   98.6 degrees Fahrenheit
B.   81 degrees Fahrenheit
C.   41 degrees Fahrenheit
D.   It is a cold blooded animal so it depends on water temperatures
E.   61 degrees Fahrenheit
Question #5
Tuna hunt like what animals?
A.   Bears
B.   King cobras
C.   Hyenas
D.   Salmon
E.   Wolves
Question #6
What fish did Japanese samurai view as unclean?
A.   Sharks
B.   Lobster
C.   Bluefin
D.   Marlin
Question #7
What is a familiar sight in Gloucester and Barnstable, Massachusetts?
A.   Coast guard regulators stopping Bluefin fishing
B.   Japanese fish importers
C.   Foreclosure signs on boats that can no longer fish
D.   Scientists trying to look if dolphins have been caught with tuna
Question #8
Why has overfishing in the eastern Atlantic hurt Bluefin tunas throughout the Atlantic?
A.   Bluefin are being hunting by killer whales in the whole Atlantic and they have no means of avoiding these predators
B.   Bluefin only breed in the eastern Atlantic
C.   Bluefin range throughout the entire Atlantic during their lifetime so overfishing in one area hurts the species everywhere
D.   Bluefin are only found in the eastern Atlantic
Question #9
How has tuna ranching in the Mediterranean decimated the population of bluefins?
A.   The ranchers attract tuna predators which can eat all the corralled bluefin tuna
B.   The ranchers catch the adult tuna as they are about to reproduce
C.   The ranchers take all the tuna eggs to sell as caviar
D.   By catching immature fish, which they fatten up and kill, before they can reproduce
Question #10
What does John Marra propose?
A.   Large scale domestication of the ocean
B.   A targeted elimination of all commercial fish predators so people can have all they want
C.   Elimination of all ocean nets
D.   New nets to catch more fish
Question #11
Why are there restrictions to the Arno Bay hatchery?
A.   To make the tuna feel safe
B.   To prevent corporate theft
C.   To stop dangerous radiation in the area being released
D.   To prevent the Australian government from closing the hatchery down
Question #12
Can you sex male and female tunas?
A.   YES
B.   NO
Question #13
What factor in bluefin mating can doom the Clean Seas mating project?
A.   Replicating the exact temperature
B.   Replicating the depth
C.   Replicating the light conditions
D.   Replicating the water chemistry
Question #14
Bluefin tuna can___________ other fish.
A.   Outgrow
B.   Outmigrate
C.   All of these
D.   Outswim
E.   Outeat
Question #15
Why does the prospects for Thunnus thynnus remain bleak if it is not domesticated?
A.   It has been so overfished
B.   It has become so valuable
C.   All of these
D.   Countries are not stopping the fishing of Bluefin

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