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When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became ex
When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became ex
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2017-06-29
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问题
When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals. They suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction. Now something similar could be happening in the oceans.
That the seas are being overfished has been known for years. What researchers such as Ransom Myers and Boris Worm have shown is just how fast things are changing. They have looked at half a century of data from fisheries around the world. Their methods do not attempt to estimate the actual biomass(the amount of living biological matter)of fish species in particular parts of the ocean, but rather changes in that biomass over time. According to their latest paper published in Nature, the biomass of large predators(animals that kill and eat other animals)in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start of exploitation. In some long-fished areas, it has halved again since then.
Dr. Worm acknowledges that these figures are conservative. One reason for this is that fishing technology has improved. Today’s vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar, which were not available 50 years ago. That means a higher proportion of what is in the sea is being caught, so the real difference between present and past is likely to be worse than the one recorded by changes in catch sizes. In the early days, too, longlines would have been more saturated with fish. Some individuals would therefore not have been caught, since no baited hooks would have been available to trap them, leading to an underestimate of fish stocks in the past. Furthermore, in the early days of longline fishing, a lot of fish were lost to sharks after they had been hooked. That is no longer a problem, because there are fewer sharks around now.
Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm argue that their work gives a correct baseline, which future management efforts must take into account. They believe the date support an idea current among marine biologists, that of the "shifting baseline". The notion is that people have failed to detect the massive changes which have happened in the ocean because they have been looking back only a relatively short time into the past. That matters because theory suggests that the maximum sustainable yield that can be cropped from a fishery comes when the biomass of a target species is about 50% of its original levels. Most fisheries are well below that, which is a bad way to be business.
We can infer form Dr. Myers and Dr. Worm’s paper that______.
选项
A、the stock of large predators in some old fisheries has reduced by 90%
B、there are only half as many fisheries are there were 15 years ago
C、he catch sizes in new fisheries are only 20% of the original amount
D、the number of larger predators dropped faster in new fisheries than in the old
答案
A
解析
推理题。定位到原文第二段这么几个句子:According to their latest paperpublished in Nature,the biomass of large predators(animals that kill and eat otheranimals)in a new fishery is reduced on average by 80% within 15 years of the start ofexploitation.In some long—fished areas,it has halved again since then。大意是捕食者的数量在新渔场已经平均下降了80%,而在一些长期捕鱼的区域,即老渔场,这个数目又少了一半(注意原文中again这个词,非常关键),即由原来的(100%一80%)下降到了1/2×(100%一80%)=10%,因此等价于下降了90%。A选项的意思是:在一些老渔场,大型捕食者的数量已经减少了90%。由此可看出,A选项是正确的。
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