Study Guide for Exam 1 WMAN 445 Fall 2012

Exam I will consist of material covered in chapters 1, 4, and 5, and material cover in lectures (handouts, webpages) and lab through Sep 20. Anything we covered is fair game, but focus your study on the material covered in lecture; and use the book for additional important background information. Use this study guide to help organize the material and study. Please do not just study this study guide because there might be something missing, though not intentional. The test will be worth 100 points. It will consist of matching, short answer, definitions, and longerresponse questions like draw a graph, answer a question, etc. Study hard and good luck! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Define fish management. What is the concept of a fishery? Define the 3 interacting components that make up a fishery. Give an example of a fishery. What is fisheries science? How does it fit into fisheries management? Why is the holistic approach of ecosystem management so important to fisheries management? What are some problems currently faced in fisheries management? Define ecosystem services. Compare the property rights of natural resources in the old and the new worlds. What are common property resources and how does it lead to the tragedy of the commons? What is the tragedy of the commons? Give an example. What is the general theme of resource use in early North America? What did it lead to with respect to fish resources? What were the management responses to the problems of declining fish populations? What was the first law related to fishing (when and where)? Give examples of precipitous declines in fishes during this early time period. What were the American Fish Culturalists Association and the US Commission on Fish and Fisheries? Fish introduction was one option used in response to declining fisheries. Name some species that were widely introduced beyond their natural range. Compare the preservationists and conservationists ethic / wise-use paradigm with ecosystem management and Leopolds land ethic. Carl Hubbs, Ralph Eschmeyer, Spencer Baird What is the philosophy of maximum sustained yield? What elements of this approach make it attractive? What is the flaw? What initiated the move toward ecosystem management? Define the ecosystem management approach to fisheries management. What is optimum sustained yield? Define the forces that are important in the fisheries management process. Define fisheries management operationally in terms of these forces that shape fish management. Why is a multi-disciplinary, team work approach so important to fisheries management? List 5 stakeholders that may be involved in managing the smallmouth bass population in Deckers Creek. Outline the steps in the fisheries management process and define each. Give examples of goals and objectives. What does the acronym SMART stand for in terms of objectives? How does scientific research fit into this management process? Understand how ecosystem management is an integral component of the process. What is watershed management? What 3 functions does fisheries legislation serve? Name a Wild and Scenic River in WV. What is trust responsibility? Define Riparian and Appropriations doctrines. USFWS, Coop Unit, NMFS, AFS, Black Bass Act, NEPA, FWCA, FPA, CWA, TMDL, NPDES, AntiDegradation Policy, Dingell-Johnson Act, 3:1, Wallop-Breaux Act, Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, ESA, SMCRA, WVDNR, WVDEP, AML What are water quality standards? What are water-use categories? What is SMCRA and how does it help clean up pollution from old abandon mines? How many species of fish are there compared to other vertebrates? Why are there an inordinate amount of fishes found in freshwater compared to marine environments? Define: natural selection, bony fish, anadromous, catadromous, diadromous What is a fish? Name reasons why fish are becoming endangered and extinct quicker than other vertebrates. Match the common and scientific names of fishes we covered in class. Know some important facts about each. What is the significance of lobed-finned fishes like the coelacanth (Latermeria chalumnae is the scientific name) to natural history?

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27. Name 3 environmental conditions that the paddlefish uses as cues to begin its spawning migration. How often are these conditions met, in terms of years? Name some important reasons that caused paddlefish populations to decline. (OMIT). Whats the maximum age observed for paddlefish? What is the maximum movement observed in distance per day for paddlefish? How do dams affect paddlefish growth and spawning? 28. Name the physiographic providences as one moves east from West Virginia to the coast of the Atlantic Ocean. 29. Define: euryhaline, stenothermal, eurythermal, plate tectonics, stream piracy, Teays River, stream network topology, zoogeography 30. Understand the successively finer scales of processes that determine fish distribution. Give examples of each process. Give examples of how global processes have determined fish distributions. Give examples of how regional processes in combination with different historical events have determined fish distributions and diversity. Give examples of local ecological and biological processes that affect fish distributions. 31. Define: alkalinity, productivity, conductivity, warmwater, coldwater, gradient, Strahler stream order, allochthonous, autochthonous. How are gradient, stream order, energy sources, and habitat complexity all generally related as you move along the length of a river from the headwaters to the mouth? 32. What is the physico-chemical template? 33. When are biological factors influencing stream fish communities likely to be more important than physical/chemical factors? 34. What is the cheat minnow? 35. How does pH influence stream water chemistry? Why is high water conductivity bad for fish (and other aquatic organisms)? 36. How does the spatial position of a stream (and barriers to fish movement) within a drainage network influence fish communities? What is an adventitious stream? 37. Recognize the common types of fish assemblages.