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From the Ted Talk by Daniel Pauly: The ocean's shifting baseline

Unscramble the Blue Letters


My third little story is that I was an accomplice in the introduction of trawling in ssteuaoht Asia. In the '70s — well, beginning in the '60s — euopre did lots of development projects. Fish development meant imposing on countries that had already 100,000 fishers to impose on them itiunrdsal fishing. And this boat, quite ugly, is cellad the mutraia 4. And I went sailing on it, and we did surveys throughout the southern South cniha sea and especially the Java Sea. And what we caught, we didn't have words for it. What we cgauht, I know now, is the bottom of the sea. And 90 percent of our catch were sponges, other animals that are fixed on the bottom. And actually most of the fish, they are a little spot on the debris, the piles of debris, were coral reef fish. eeastslilny the bottom of the sea came onto the deck and then was thrown down.

Open Cloze


My third little story is that I was an accomplice in the introduction of trawling in _________ Asia. In the '70s — well, beginning in the '60s — ______ did lots of development projects. Fish development meant imposing on countries that had already 100,000 fishers to impose on them __________ fishing. And this boat, quite ugly, is ______ the _______ 4. And I went sailing on it, and we did surveys throughout the southern South _____ sea and especially the Java Sea. And what we caught, we didn't have words for it. What we ______, I know now, is the bottom of the sea. And 90 percent of our catch were sponges, other animals that are fixed on the bottom. And actually most of the fish, they are a little spot on the debris, the piles of debris, were coral reef fish. ___________ the bottom of the sea came onto the deck and then was thrown down.

Solution


  1. essentially
  2. called
  3. china
  4. mutiara
  5. southeast
  6. europe
  7. caught
  8. industrial

Original Text


My third little story is that I was an accomplice in the introduction of trawling in Southeast Asia. In the '70s — well, beginning in the '60s — Europe did lots of development projects. Fish development meant imposing on countries that had already 100,000 fishers to impose on them industrial fishing. And this boat, quite ugly, is called the Mutiara 4. And I went sailing on it, and we did surveys throughout the southern South China sea and especially the Java Sea. And what we caught, we didn't have words for it. What we caught, I know now, is the bottom of the sea. And 90 percent of our catch were sponges, other animals that are fixed on the bottom. And actually most of the fish, they are a little spot on the debris, the piles of debris, were coral reef fish. Essentially the bottom of the sea came onto the deck and then was thrown down.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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marine protected 3
evidence presented 2
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Important Words


  1. accomplice
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  10. china
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  24. industrial
  25. introduction
  26. java
  27. lots
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  29. mutiara
  30. percent
  31. piles
  32. projects
  33. reef
  34. sailing
  35. sea
  36. south
  37. southeast
  38. southern
  39. sponges
  40. spot
  41. story
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  43. thrown
  44. trawling
  45. ugly
  46. words