Question

Read this excerpt from a passage and the works cited entry for the source listed below the excerpt.

According to NOAA, global aquaculture currently supplies about fifty percent of all seafood produced for human consumption. This number is growing, and it will continue to increase. United States aquaculture meets only five to seven percent of the domestic demand for seafood. Most farmed fish is from Asia...While aquaculture lags overall in the United States, fish farms can now be found in all fifty states. States with the largest production of marine aquaculture are Maine, Washington, Virginia, Louisiana, and Hawaii. The largest freshwater producers are Mississippi and Idaho. "Basic Questions about Aquaculture." NOAA. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), n.d. Web. 29 July 2014. What is one reason that this is a credible source? The evidence in the article is anecdotal and gives the reader good information. The cited article was produced in cooperation by two government agencies. The article was not published in a scholarly journal, so it is actually not credible. The article uses numerical statistics, which can always be trusted.

Answer 1

The source is credible because it was produced by two reliable government agencies, NMFS and NOAA, which specialize in marine and aquatic sciences.

Step-by-step explanation:

The excerpt provided is from a credible source for several reasons, one of which includes the fact that the cited article was produced in cooperation by two government agencies: the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Government agencies are generally reliable sources because they are accountable to the public and are often held to high standards of fact-checking and accuracy.

The involvement of NMFS and NOAA, both of which are authoritative sources on marine and aquatic sciences, lends credibility to the information presented in the article.