The advantage for fishers to choose a population that feeds close to the primary producing population is that ________

A) energy transfer between trophic levels is inefficient and this will increase the available biomass
B) they will be close to shore so it is easier to fish those regions
C) it is easier to recover more biomass from the fish because they have not wasted energy swimming after food
D) there will be a bigger variety of food available in those locations because there will be several trophic levels available
E) none of the above


A

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