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T-9-Q19.TS-7-11 In 1992 outlaw fishing boats began illegallyharvesting lobsters from the territorial waters of the country of Belukia. Soonafter, the annual tonnage of lobster legally harvested in Belukian waters begandeclining; in 1996, despite there being no reduction in the level of legallobster fishing activity, the local catch was 9,000 tons below pre-1992 levels.It is therefore highly likely that the outlaw fishing boats harvested about9,000 tons of lobster illegally that year.
Which of the following is an assumption on whichthe argument depends?
A. Theillegal lobster harvesting was not so extensive that the population ofcatchable lobsters in Belukia’s territorial waters had sharply declined by 1996
B. Theaverage annual lobster catch, in tons, of an outlaw fishing boat is hasincreased steadily since 1992.
C. Outlawfishing boats do not, as a group, harvest more lobsters than do licensedlobster-fishing boats.
D. Theannual legal lobster harvest in Belukia in 1996 was not significantly less than9,000 tons.
E. Asignificant proportion of Belukia’s operators of licensed lobster-fishing boatswere out of business between 1992 and 1996
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