Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

Exercise 1

A fishprint provides a measure of a country's fish harvest in terms of area. The unit of area used in fishprint analysis is the global hectare (gha), a unit weighted to reflect the relative ecological productivity of the area fished. When compared with the fishing area's sustainable biocapacity (its ability to provide a stable supply of fish year after year, expressed in terms of yield per area), its fishprint indicates whether the country's annual fishing harvest is sustainable. The fishprint and biocapacity are calculated using the following formulas:
Fishprint in (gha) = metric tons of fish harvested per year/productivity in metric tons per hectare × weighting factor
Biocapacity in (gha) = sustained yield of fish in metric tons per year/productivity in metric tons per hectare × weighting factor

If biologists determine that this country's sustained yield of fish is 17 million metric tons per year,
a. What is the country's sustainable biological capacity
b. Is the county's annual fishing harvest sustainable
c. To what extent, as a percentage, is the country undershooting or overshooting its biological capacity