Out law fishing boat

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In1992outlawfishingboats began illegally harvesting lobsters from the territorial waters of the country of Belukia.Soon after, the annual tonnage of lobster legally harvested inBelukian waters began declining; in 1996, despite there being no reduction in the level of legal lobster fishing activity, the local catch was 9,000 tons below pre-1992 levels.It is therefore highly likely that the outlawfishingboats harvested about 9,000 tons of lobster illegally that year.


Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?


A. The illegal lobster harvesting was not so extensive that the population of catchable lobsters inBelukia’s territorial waters had sharply declined by 1996.
B. The average annual lobster catch, in tons, of an outlawfishingboat has increased steadily since 1992.
C. Outlawfishingboats do not, as a group, harvest more lobsters than do licensed lobster-fishingboats.
D. The annual legal lobster harvest inBelukia in 1996 was not significantly less than 9,000 tons.
E. A significant proportion of Belukia’s operators of licensed lobster-fishingboats went out of business between 1992 and 1996.


OA:A

A我懂了。但是BD我不知道哪里错了。求解答。