PrepTest 153 - Section 1 - Passage 2 - Question 14

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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.

Some experts' perspective · FF will restore wild fish populations

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.

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.

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

Problem-analysis

14.

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Author’s perspective

Implied

This is an inference from the author’s perspective question targeted to pollution caused by fish farming. Recall that the main point of the passage is the critique that fish farming potentially both alleviates and causes decline in wild fish populations. What role does pollution play in this argument? It supports the idea that fish farming can damage wild fish populations.

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Unsupported. Passage to not talk about genetic mutation.

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Unsupported. Pollution from fish farming was not compared to other types of pollution.

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Supported.

73%

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Unsupported. The passage didn't talk about how to prevent such pollution. Maybe fish farmers alone can do it.

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Unsupported. Based on the passage, we only have evidence that pollution may prevent fish farming from relieving pressure on wild fishery stocks.

18%

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