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Fishery Facts Multichoice - Medium

How well do you know the Taupo Fishery?

1. A place with a large population of fish that people catch is called a:
  a. pond
  b. ocean
  c. fishery
  d. aquarium

2. The Taupo fishery is a wild fishery which means that:
  a. the fish population is self-sustaining
  b. no fish are stocked
  c. humans are not involved with breeding the fish
  d. all of the above

3. This many people fish in Taupo every year:
  a. 15,000
  b. 45,000
  c. 100,000
  d. 5,000

4. On average, rainbow trout live to be about:
  a. 1-2 years
  b. 2-3 years
  c. 3-4 years
  d. 4-5 years

5. When trout are 25 mm long they are called this:
  a. fry
  b. parr
  c. fingerlings
  d. alevins

6. In Lake Taupo, brown trout eat mainly bullies and catfish and rainbow trout eat mainly
  a. insects
  b. koaro
  c. shags
  d. smelt


7. Trout will stop eating and breeding if the water is too:
  a. cool
  b. discoloured
  c. warm
  d. thick


8. Only about this percentage of water on the earth's surface is suitable for drinking:
  a. 50%
  b. 1%
  c. 10%
  d. 80%


9. Rivers in Taupo are used by trout as well as:
  a. power companies
  b. kayakers
  c. anglers
  d. all of the above


10. Another name for the invasive freshwater alga didymo is called:
  a. rock snot
  b. bloom
  c. matty hair
  d. toilet paper wads