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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II - Limits.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 1995, a system was initiated to restrict the total cod catch to _____ percent of the estimated stock.
(a) 25.
(b) 10.
(c) 75.
(d) 50.

2. Which Spanish Basque city provided anchors and metal fittings with its ironworks and grew with the cod boom?
(a) Bilbao.
(b) Balboa.
(c) St. Michelle.
(d) Lido.

3. Hákarl is the flesh of a large _____.
(a) Gray skate.
(b) Hake.
(c) Greenland shark.
(d) Puffer fish.

4. A ship with onboard fish processing is called a _____.
(a) Floating station.
(b) Factory ship.
(c) Process outfitter.
(d) Transport plant.

5. What were wind-dried whiting wetted with seawater to give them a special taste called?
(a) Salthake.
(b) Speldings.
(c) Kippers.
(d) Finnan haddie.

Short Answer Questions

1. The colonial governor of New Amsterdam wrote of six-foot _____ in 1649.

2. What do New Englanders call smaller thin-shelled quahogs?

3. What is stuffed cod stomach called in the Scottish Highlands?

4. Who was murdered in the Icelandic fishing station of Grindavík in 1532?

5. Which author's novel described too many fishermen on the banks working the same grounds.

(see the answer key)

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