Read  Has the Sea Given up its Bounty and Oceans of Nothing   (illustration at http://arnica.csustan.edu/carosella/Biol2650/F06/illustration_from_time_magazine_.htm) and   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15398149/ 

From the NY TIMES and the TIME magazine articles:

(2) 1. What evidence supports the idea that the ocean ecosystem, and fish populations in particular, are in trouble?

(1) 2. What are some of the changes adopted by the seafood industry that are aimed at addressing the problem?

(1) 3. What types of modern fishing technology have contributed to the problem?

(1) 4. How is the global fishing fleet sustaining itself?

(1) 5. What is “biomass extraction?”

(1) 6. Why are subsidies are part of the problem?

(1) 7. Why isn’t aquaculture or fish farming a solution? (3 reasons)

(3) 8. List some of the solutions suggested (6 from one article, one from the other).

From the MSNBC article:

(1) 9. If current trends continue, what level will annual global consumption reach, by the year 2050?

(1) 10. What is the only highly developed country with a sustainable society, in terms of resource use?

(1) 11. What does Wackernagel mean by “ecological overshoot?”

(1) 12. Why is the infrastructure that we build today important for the future?