Use information from the Washington Post article Why We've Been Hugely Underestimating the Overfishing of the Oceans to determine whether each statement is true or false.

1. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO), worldwide catches peaked in 2001 at 86 million tons

2.Using catch reconstruction, researchers estimate that the actual peak catch was 50% larger than the reported peak catch. Answer Bank

3.Catch reconstruction shows that, since the peak, catches have been increasing, not decreasing as previously reported false true

4. The Sea Around Us Project found several problems with the FAO data, such as the fact that data that were not available were reported as catches of zero fish.