GENERAL REVIEW ON MARINE CAPTURE FISHERIES3

1. An act providing for the development, management and conservation of

the fisheries and aquatic resources.

a. RA 8551 b. RA 7160 c. RA 8435 d. RA 8550

2. This Fisheries Administrative Order prohibits operation of municipal and

commercial fishing boats using active gears in municipal waters, bays and
fishery management areas.

a. FAO 198 b. FAO 222 c. FAO 201 d. FAO 190

3. Which of the following gear types are not prohibited under Section 90 of
the Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998?

a. Trawl b. Beach Seine c. Danish Seine d. All of the these

4. It is defined as the manner or system of operation used in

gathering/taking or catching of fish.

a. Fishing Gear b. Fishing Method c. Fishing d. Fish Attraction

5. This refers to all activities relating to the act or business of fishing,

culturing, preserving, processing, marketing, developing, conserving and
managing aquatic resources and the fishery areas, including the privilege
to fish or take aquatic resources.

a. Fisheries b. Fishing c. Fishworker d. None of these

6. Technically defined as any structure of natural or man- made material

placed on a body of water to serve as shelter and habitat, source of food,
breeding areas for fishery species and shoreline protection.

a. Artificial Reef b. Coral Reef c. Fish Sanctuary d. Fish Refuge

7. The taking of fishery species by passive or active gear for trade, business or
profit beyond subsistence or sports fishing.

a. Municipal Fisheries b. Commercial Fisheries c. Artisanal

Fisheries d. Subsistence Fisheries

8. The maximum Gross Tonnage to qualify as Municipal Fishing Vessel.

a. 2.9 GT b. 3.0 GT c. 3.1 GT d. None of these

9. Any instrument or device including its accessories utilized in catching,
taking and gathering fish and other fishery species always set, staked in
strategic areas.
a. Fishing Gear b. Set Fishing Gear c. Drift Fishing Gear b. All of these

10. A type of fishing gear classified according to fishing method which is by

covering the fish with the fishing gear and is commonly used in shallow
areas.

a. Drive- in Fishing Gear b. Falling Gear c. Ripping Fishing Gear d. None

11. Is a fishing device characterized by gear movements, and/or the pursuit of

the target species by towing, lifting and pushing the gears, surrounding,
covering, dredging, pumping and scaring the target species to
impoundments; such as, but not limited to trawl, purse seine, Danish
seines, bagnets, paaling, drift gillnets and tuna longline.

a. Active Gears b. Passive Gears c. Destructive Gears

d. None of these

12. Which of the following are the benefits of Artificial Reefs?

a. Conserves and initiates the rehabilitation of damaged reefs and emulates

them in areas where natural reefs never exist.
b. Concentrates marine organisms to allow more efficient but selective and
regulated fishing activities.
c. Serves as nursery, breeding and spawning grounds to various fish species
and eventually serves as protection to them.
d. All of the above

13. This gear is set in coral reef areas whereby fishes are driven towards the
net by the use of air bubbles coming from compressors.

a. Muro- ami b. Pantukos c. Kayakas d. Pa-aling

14. Is it necessary for the Department of Agriculture to issue a listing of

destructive fishing gear before the provisions of Sec. 92 of RA 8550 can be
enforced?

a. Yes b. No c. Both A and B d. None of these

15. Which of the following are the signs of an overfished area?

a. Changes in species composition

b. Change in average size of fish
c. Declining total fish catch
d. All of the above
16. A form of biological overfishing where fishes are caught before they have a
chance to grow or when immature fish are caught
a. Recruitment overfishing
b. Growth overfishing
c. Ecosystem overfishing
d. All of the above

17. It is defined as the largest average quantity of fish that can be harvested
from a fish stocks/resource within a period of time (e.g. one year) on a
sustainable basis under existing environmental conditions as well as the
level or condition at which fish production is at its biological maximum.

a. Catch per unit effort

b. Maximum sustainable yield
c. Biological overfishing
d. Fish Stock

18. It is the period where taking of a specified fishery species, or the use of a
specified fishing gear or both is prohibited in a specified area/s in
Philippine waters.

a. Open Season
b. Closed Season
c. Catch Ceiling
d. Total allowable catch

19. It is a band of dry land and adjacent ocean space (water and submerged
land) in which terrestrial processes and uses directly affect oceanic
processes and uses, and vice versa.

a. Coastal ecosystem
b. Sea Coast
c. Coastal Zone
d. Coastal management area

20. Which of the following is not a cause of coral reef degradation?

a. Siltation/ Sedimentation
b. Destructive Fishing Methods and Practices
c. Coral Mining
d. Industrial and Agricultural Pollution
e. All of the above

21. A community of intertidal plants including all species of trees, vines and
herbs found on coasts, swamps or border of swamps.
 a. Mangroves
b. Sea grasses
c. Coral Reefs
d. Marine Reserves

22. Find the Gross Tonnage of a Fishing Boat if the LWD is 30m, 5m, and 3m
respectively.
a. 38 GT
b. 2.7 GT
c. 95.4 GT
d. 450 GT

23. If the mesh size of a net is 3.54cm, how many knots is the size of the mesh?
a. 9.5k
b. 9.6k
c. 4.4k
d. 4.5k

24. How many hectares is the Philippines’ Marine Resources including the
EEZ?
a. 193,000 has.
b. 220,000 has.
c. 480,000 has.
d. None of the above

25. Compute the knots in inches if the mesh size is 11k.

a. 1.2 in.
b. 1.5 in.
c. 2.4 in.
d. 3.1 in.

26. It is a type of surrounding net where the means of closure is thru the purse
line hauled manually onboard.
a. Purse Seine
b. Ring net
c. Surrounding gill net
d. Round haul seine

27. Which differentiates a purse seine from a ring net?

a. Rectangular in shape
b. No distinct bag
c. Vertically set in water to surround pelagic fish school
d. Usually with purse line
e. None of the above
28. , Which is not classified as active gear under the Philippine Fisheries Code
of 1998?
a. Drift gill net
b. Drift longline
c. Purse seine
d. Ring net
e. None of the above

29. It is the right side part of the boat.

a. Starboard side
b. Port Side
c. Bulwark
d. Galley
e. None of the above

30. This constitutes defined spaces to which specific forms of management are
applied which normally include limited entry.

a. Fish Sanctuary
b. Marine Reserves
c. Marine Parks
d. Coastline

31. The part of the boat where the pilot house is found and other navigational
instruments are installed.
a. Bridge
b. Deck
c. Galley
d. Mess hall

32. If the mesh size limit of a fishing gear is 3.05cm, what is its value in knots?
a. 9 k
b. 10 k
c. 11 k
d. 12 k

33. It is defined as any area of the intertidal or subtidal terrain, together with
its overlying water and associated flora, fauna, historical and cultural
features, which has been reserved by law or other effective means to
protect part or all of the enclosed environment.
a. Coastal ecosystem
b. Marine Protected Areas
c. Coastal Zone
d. Fish Sanctuary

34. It is the property of a fishing gear that reduces/excludes incidental catch

and unwanted sizes of species.
 a. Gear selectivity
b. Passive gear
c. Active gear
d. None of these

35. The type of fishing boat also known as Mother Boat.

a. Catcher Boat
b. Carrier Boat
c. Auxiliary Fishing Boat
d. Light Boat

36. What color of light can you see at the Port Side of the vessel?
a. Green Light
b. Red Light
c. White Light
d. Yellow Light

37. What particular Presidential Decree claims the Spratley’s Island or

Kalayaan Island Group?
a. PD 704
b. PD 1599
c. PD 1596
d. PD 7611

38. This Philippine law establishes the delineation of an Exclusive Economic

Zone.
a. PD 704
b. PD 1599
c. PD 1596
d. PD 7611

39. The only group of submerged flowering plants in the marine environment
which thrive in shallow water coastal habitat.
a. Mangroves
b. Sea grasses
c. Coral Reefs
d. Marine Plants

40. What particular area in the Philippines abounds with coral reefs?
a. Palawan Group
b. Sulu Archipelago
c. Visayan Group
d. Central and Southern Mindanao

41. Why is manta ray species prohibited for catching?

a. Because they are already endangered as listed in CITES
b. Because they are already threatened species
 c. Because they are already classified as rare
d. None of the above

42. It is the mesh size limit for Pa-aling or drive in net.

a. 1.9 inches
b. 3.0 cm
c. 3.38 cm
d. None of the above

43. An area which assures the natural conditions necessary to protect

nationally significant species or group of species or physical features of the
environment.
a. Fish Sanctuary
b. Marine Park
c. Marine Reserve
d. Wildlife Sanctuary

44. Which of the following fishing gears are limited to 1.9 cm mesh size of the
bunt stipulated under FAO 155-1?
a. Bagnet
b. Ring Net
c. Purse Seine
d. B and C
e. All of the above

45. It is the first ever fisheries law.

a. PD 704
b. RA 8550
c. Act 4003
d. PD 1599

46. This type of gear is the most productive in municipal fisheries.

a. Gill net
b. Hand line
c. Cast net
d. Fyke net

47. The water parameter where the pH is below seven.

a. Acidic
b. Basic
c. Neutral
d. None of these

48. The stocking of natural or hatchery- produced marine plants o animals,

under controlled conditions, for purposes of rearing and harvesting, but
not limited to commercially important fishes, mollusks (such as pearl and
giant clam culture), including seaweeds and seagrasses.
 a. Sea ranching
b. Sea farming
c. Aquasilvi
d. None of these

49. What is the hanging rate if the length of the nettings is 100m and the
length of the line is 50m?
a. 75%
b. 65%
c. 50%
d. 45%
50. Evolution of light fishing started with the use of…
a. Wooden Torch
b. Kerosene lamp
c. Mercury lamp
d. Fluorescent lamp

51. If the gross tonnage of a fishing boat is 3.18 m3, what are its particulars?
a. 10m x 1.5m x 1.0m
b. 1m x 2.0m x 1.0m
c. 12m x 1.5m x 1.5m
d. 9m x 2m x 1.5m

52. If the particulars of a certain fishing boat is 11’ x 1.5’ x 1’, what is its gross
tonnage?
a. 0.1 GT
b. 3 GT
c. 1.0 GT
d. 1.09 GT

53. A fishery policy by which a system of equitable resource use and allocation
is established by law through fishery rights granting and licensing
procedure as provided for under RA 8550.
a. Open Access
b. Limited Access
c. Closed Access
d. All of the above

54. What do you call the line connecting the hooks to the mainline in a
Longling Fishing Gear.
a. Branchline
b. Sinker line
c. Floatline
d. Reeving Line

55. The repair of damaged nettings by sewing or patching.

a. Splicing
 b. Mending
c. Selvaging
d. Reeving

56. A strong thread, string or chord of two or more strands twisted together.
a. Strand
b. Yarn
c. Twine
d. None of these

57. The dimension of a mesh from the center of one knot to the center of the
next diagonally opposite knot.
a. Mesh size
b. Length of the mesh
c. Webbing
d. Mesh opening

58. The front part of the banca.

a. Bow
b. Aft
c. Astern
d. Deck

59. Also called subsistence fishermen.

a. Municipal fishermen
b. Artisanal fishermen
c. Small- scale fishermen
d. All of the above

60. The part of the gear which provides easy entrance of fishes but hard exit to
prevent caught fishes from escaping.
a. Leader Net
b. Wings
c. Non- return valve
d. Collecting crib

61. An accessory of the fishing gear used to drive fishes to the waiting net.
a. Scareline
b. Floatline
c. Reeving line
d. Sinker line

62. The side or quarter away from the direction from which the wind blows. It
is also called the side sheltered from the wind.
a. Seaward
b. Windward
c. Seabreeze
 d. Leeward

63. A heavy material made of cast/black iron, lead or concrete for hastening
the collection of rings and quick closure of the net bottom.
a. Purse Davit
b. Purse Winch
c. Puretic Power Block
d. Tom weight

64. The process of connecting the net to the headrope/ floatline at its desired
ratio.
a. Hanging Percentage
b. Hanging Line
c. Hanging
d. Hanging Rate

65. The portion of the catch returned to the sea (or thrown away) because of
economic considerations which is deemed to have or even negative value
to the catcher.
a. Discarded catch
b. Incidental catch
c. Total catch
d. Retained catch

66. A kind of right, by which fishers may have exclusive use for a designated
area and resources.
a. Fishworkers ID
b. Fishing license
c. Fishing right
d. Open access

67. A situation where adequate supply of appropriate foods at affordable

prices are ensured.
a. Fishing capacity
b. Fishing effort
c. Food security
d. All of the above

68. Species rimary sought or aimed by the fishers.

a. Target Catch
b. Unwanted catch
c. Total catch
d. Discarded catch
69. They are the fish species which are distributed or migrate within and
beyond the EEZs during their life cycle.
a. Straddling fish stocks
b. Transboundary fish stock
c. Shared stocks
d. None of the above

70. They are the fish species which migrate within an EEZ but extend their
migration to other’s EEZs.
a. Straddling fish stocks
b. Transboundary fish stock
c. Shared stocks
d. None of the above

71. An intervention aimed at supplementing, augmenting or adding to the

present population of fish by various methods.
a. Resource enhancement
b. Responsible fisheries
c. Fisheries management
d. All of the above

72. Amount of fishing vessels and gears of a specific type used in the fishing
ground over a given unit of time.
a. Fishing
b. Fishing Effort
c. Fishing ground
d. None of the above

73. A specialize version of a marine reserve where various uses are encouraged
which emphasize education, research and preservation, sometimes
implemented by zonation schemes.

a. Fish Sanctuary
b. Marine Reserves
c. Marine Parks
d. Coastline

74. Techniques or methods of fishing that are not detrimental or do not impair
the sustainability of fish stocks and their habitats and ecosystem.
a. Resource enhancement
b. Responsible fishing technology
c. Fisheries management
d. Responsible fisheries

75. The particular basic right of an arrested person which is being said by
apprehending officers during arrest.
a. Miranda Rights
 b. Human rights
c. Right of privacy
d. None

76. This refers to the interactions between and the among various components
of the marine or coastal environment.
a. Coastal ecosystem
b. Coastal zone
c. Coastal management area
d. Marine protected area

77. An act of scooping fish onboard by means of a smaller net or scoop.

a. Brailing
b. Hauling
c. Setting
d. Pursing

78. These are freshwater fishes which migrate to marine water areas to spawn
a. Anadromous species
b. Catadromous species
c. Migratory species
d. All of the above

79. This refers to areas in any body of water where fish and other aquatic
resources congregate and become objects of capture.
a. Fishing grounds
b. Fishing sector
c. Fisheries
d. All of the above

80.These are marine fishes which migrate to freshwater areas to spawn

a. Anadromous species
b. Catadromous species
c. Migratory species
d. All of the above