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Fishery Facts Multichoice - Difficult

How well do you know the Taupo Fishery?

1. A potential threat to the Taupo Fishery is:
  a. Overharvest or taking too many fish from the waterways
  b. Human modification of the waterways like damming or polluting
  c. Introduction of pest weeds or fish
  d. All of the above

2. Fish that search for their food in the open water all called:
  a. pelagic feeders
  b. day time feeders
  c. bottom dwellers
  d. night time feeders

3. Electric fishing technique is used to help Taupo fishery managers monitor:
  a. population of insects
  b. population of koura
  c. population of juvenile trout
  d. population of catfish

4. Spawn means to:
  a. reproduce
  b. rest
  c. swim fast
  d. die

5. The present-day purpose of the Tongariro National Trout Centre is to:
  a. raise trout to stock Lake Taupo
  b. act as a safeguard for protecting the Taupo Fishery
  c. accommodation for tourists
  d. restaurant


6. Rainbow trout stop travelling:
  a. in bright daylight
  b. when it rains
  c. during the darkest hours of the night
  d. they never stop travelling


7. The main food source for trout in the alevin stage is:
  a. smelt
  b. algae
  c. caddis worms
  d. the yolk sac


8. Six of the eight Taupo lakes that have trout in them were formed by:
  a. floods
  b. damming rivers for hydro-power schemes
  c. volcanic eruptions
  d. fluvial processes


9. Lake Taupo is a volcanic caldera. The most recent eruption was in:
  a. 1956 AD
  b. 50 AD
  c. 1978 AD
  d. 181 AD


10. The type of trout in Taupo that lives the longest is:
  a. brown trout
  b. brook trout
  c. rainbow trout
  d. unknown