Coral reef fish danger - Blue Planet - BBC Environment





Comprehension questions and videoscript by Yolanda García Jordán, group AP2

1.Coral reefs are having a ____ ____ __
2.Part of the problem is the ____ ____ in reef fish
3... the ____ ____ __ is an alarming rate
4.Fish on coral reefs [...] are hide among as a ____ for people __ ____ ____ arround the world
5.Cities like Hong Kong is a ____ ____
6.People like the fish ____
7."This beautiful animal is called ____ ____"
8.Humped rash should be able to live for more than __ ____ but they ____ ____ that age this days.

QUESTIONS:

• How many tones of fish go into Hong Kong each year?


• What is the woman who appears at the video worried about?


• What happens if you have fisherers which take large numbers of juveniles?

VIDEOSCRIPT

It's not just a deep that's in danger, shallow would a xxx xxx like coral reefs are having a hard time too.Part of the problem is the green trade in reef fish and is often the market to xxx for luxury fish like xxx called tauten rash that's behind the problem. They're being fished out at an alarming rate.Fish on coral reefs double ones a staple food for local people are now in hide among as a delicacy for people in much cities around the world.The majority goes to main than China and cities like Hong Kong, it's a huge market and some 30000 tones of reef fish come into Hong Kong every year.But the fisherman are having to go to coral reefs further and further a field a stocks dry up. Some now travel 3000 miles on a single fishing trip to find reef with fish.People like the fish fresh, very fresh. So much too but the cost of live fish is ten times the cost of fresh dead fish and the fish on the market place are getting smaller and smaller.Dr. Evoncy Dovy is worried about the amount of juveniles being sold here.-” This beautiful animal is a humped rash and is called humped rash because on his hump on his head and the other oner is the join grouper, this is the join grouper, the several xxx and this juveniles... this one is probably a late teenager but still not particularly old or well develop fish and the majority that we see of this species are young juvenile fish”-Humped rash should be able to live for more than 20 years but they rarely reach that age this days. They take an out far too young.-” If you have fishers which take large numbers of juveniles, this animals have not have a chance to reproduce, so you start to wonder where's the next generation going they come from.If you take too many juveniles slowly what happens is you don't get enough adults in the next generation and slowly the populations are stacks declining numbers so that's what my concerning is that this is part of a trend that we see more and more juveniles being taking in the street that's not xxx well for this particularly species”-But much more serious in the possible lost of the few species is the lost of an entire habitat specially one which deports thousands upon thousands species.Coral reefs are the most diverse communities in our oceans. Many of them have grown up over hundreds sometimes thousands of years and over that time a fantastic number of animals and plants had involved with them. The intricate sculpture built by the corals himself provide animals with protection from xxx important breathing sides and endless feeling opportunities.