Chapter 12: Tuna

Test question bank

Multiple Choice

  1. The ethic that promotes the well-being of individual animals rather than a species is the
  2. utilitarian ethic
  3. animal rights ethic
  4. ecological ethic
  5. ecocentric ethic
  1. Dolphin-safe labels are considered a success by the advocates of all of the following except ______.
  2. green consumerism
  3. animal rights
  4. sustainable tuna harvesting
  5. U.S. tuna corporations
  1. The yellowfin tuna industry is an example of ______because its own success undermines the resource base upon which it depends.
  2. the first contradiction of capitalism
  3. the second contradiction of capitalism
  4. Fordism
  5. post-Fordism
  1. Post-Fordist industries are characterized by
  2. flexibility and impermanent locations for the processes of extraction, production, and exchange
  3. high wages, mass production, and mass consumption
  4. vertical integration of processes such that extraction, production, and exchange are carried out by the same company in one location
  5. preference for domestic rather than transnational corporations
  1. An exclusive economic zone allows a country to
  2. decide whether foreign fishers can sell their product in certain locationswithin the country.
  3. decide whether foreign fishers may fish within 200 miles of the country’s coastline.
  4. claim ownership and control of fish stocks in distant parts of the ocean.
  5. decide where foreign-owned canning factories may be sold.
  1. Which statement about green certification is true?
  2. Green certification is available to anyone who practices sustainable methods of production.
  3. Green certification ensures the practice of sustainable production methods.
  4. Green certification standards are the same everywhere.
  5. Green certification does not prevent environmental degradation.

True/False

  1. The consumer boycott and dolphin-safe tuna labeling effectively led to the sustainable harvest of tuna.
  2. trueb. false
  1. In the tuna industry, improvements in the means of production led to degradation of the conditions of production.
  2. trueb. false
  1. The ecological ethic is not opposed to the killing of individual animals as long as the species is not threatened.
  2. trueb. false
  1. Moral extensionism has been applied to tuna as much as to dolphins.
  2. trueb. false

Identification

Keywords: animal rights, bycatch, conditions of production, consumer boycott, dolphin safe tuna, exclusive economic zones (EEZs), Fordism, green consumption, longliners, maximum sustainable yield, moral extensionism, post-Fordism, purse-seine fishing, second contradiction of capitalism, social construction, sustainability, transnational corporations, utopian

People: Sam LaBudde, the Earth Island Institute, the Marine Stewardship Council

Concepts: Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) yellowfin fishery, Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), moratorium

Short Answer

  • How does the political economy approach explain the exploitation of tuna stocks? In your answer, you should1) describe the tuna industry using the terms means of production, conditions of production, and the contradictions of capitalism, and 2) explain what the political economy perspective would suggest about the sustainability of the fish stocks and of the industry.
  • As an example of green consumerism, was the tuna consumer boycott and dolphin-safe labeling good for the environment? In your answer, you should 1) describe the history of the boycott and the labeling program and 2) make a case explaining whether or not they were beneficial to the environment.