Unit 6 Reading Study Guide
Focus your reading on the following concepts:
Chapter 9
- Destruction of estuarine habitat and coastal wetlands
- Coastal erosion
- Rise of the oceans
- Beach nourishment
- Coral reef protection
Chapter 11
- Sewage pollution in the oceans
- Ocean Dumping Act
- Dredge spoil
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- London Dumping Convention
- Oil pollution: types and control
- Oil Pollution Act
Chapter 12
- Marine commercial fishing techniques
- Overfishing
- Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)
- Bycatch
- Maximum sustained yield vs. optimum yield
- U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea
- Intensive marine aquaculture
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