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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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2017-05-27
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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 data 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 do business.
By saying "these figures are conservative "(Para. 3), Dr. Worm means that______.
选项
A、fishing technology has improved rapidly
B、the catch-sizes are actually smaller than recorded
C、the marine biomass has suffered a greater loss
D、the data collected so far are out of date
答案
C
解析
推断题。根据关键词conservative定位到第三段。第一句提到Dr.Worm承认这些数据是保守的,接下来列了三个原因解释为何数据保守。第一个原因:捕鱼技术进步了,意味着近年捕到的鱼更多了,目前海洋里的生物量与过去的生物量差距比记录的更大。第二个原因:早年用鱼线钓鱼,实际钓到的鱼的量没有预计的多,所以过去海洋里的生物量其实更大。第三个原因:早年用鱼线钓到的许多鱼在上岸之前被鲨鱼吃掉,可是现在鲨鱼也很少了。这三个原因都是在说明.现在的海洋生物量含量与过去相比下降很快。也就是说本段的主旨句“这些数据是保守的”的含义为:现在海洋生物量含量与过去比较已经大大减少了,因此可以得出C项正确。A项是原因之一,以偏概全。B项与原文表述相反。D项的说法没有根据。
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