PT153.S1.P2.Q10

PrepTest 153 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 10

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A recent worldwide decline of ocean fishery stocks has stimulated rapid growth in cultivated production of fish and shellfish, usually known as fish farming. ███████ ████ ███ █████ ███ ████████ ██████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ████████ ████ ███████ ████████ █ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ███████ ████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ███████ ████ ████████ ██████ ████ ████ █████████ ██ █████████ █████ ███████ ██████ ███

Intro topic · Fish farming (FF)
Decline in wild fish (ocean fishery stocks) led to more fish farming. Fish farming produces a large portion of the fish we eat.
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Some experts' perspective · FF will restore wild fish populations
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Critique · FF potentially both alleviates and causes decline in wild fish
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Support for Critique (causes decline) · FF can damage wild fish habitats
Intensive fish farming (designed to produce lots of fish) leads to a lot of waste and higher potential for diseases among fish. Wild fish habitats can be destroyed from that waste, those diseases, or the escape of farmed fish species that aren't native to the region.
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Support for Critique (causes decline) · FF requires using a lot of wild fish for food
The farming process for many species requires using more wild fish (by weight) than we get from harvesting the farmed fish.
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Support for Critique (alleviates decline) · Can reduce incentive to capture or eat some wild fish species.
Can reduce prices of some fish, which deters efforts to capture wild versions of those fish. Some farmed fish species can provide alternatives to some other wild fish species.
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Doubt · Benefits of FF for wild fish might be lost
Markets have developed for some wild-caught fish, despite availability of farmed alternatives.
Passage Style
Critique or debate
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a

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Unsupported. The passage only talks about human activities of fishing and fish farming.

4%
b

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Unsupported. The passage does state that introducing farmed fish can reduce the price of the fish. But there is no support that that is the best way to reduce the price of wild-caught fish.

8%
c

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Unsupported. The passage does state that fish farming will probably become even more important to supply human protein needs, but it does not support the claim that without fish farming those needs will unlikely be met.

7%
d

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Unsupported. The passage does not talk about consumer taste preferences and whether they are sensitive enough to differentiate via taste between wild and farmed varieties of the same species of fish.

2%
e

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Strongly supported.

78%

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