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Fishery Case Studies

Australian teaching resources that are all about tuna and sustainable fishing. Lesson plans are aligned with Version 9 of the ACARA Australian Curriculum.

All Aboard for World Fisheries Day

World Fisheries Day is celebrated each year on 21 November, but these fisheries are working towards sustainability all year long.
Explore a selection of videos, shorthand stories, and lesson plans from fisheries in Australia, and around the world!

All Aboard - Student Worksheet

Choose 3 case studies below, and then complete the student worksheet to learn how commercial fisheries around the world are practicing sustainability!
All Aboard - Student Worksheet

Fishery Case Studies

Scallops - Australia

Scallops - Australia

Watch the video - Scallop Fishing in the Abrolhos Islands (3:53), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

Complete the Witness to Climate Change lesson plan

Kuti / Pipi - Australia

Kuti / Pipi - Australia

Watch a video - Back on Country – the Kuti Co story (6:29), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

Complete Case Study 2 from the Thank you, Fishers lesson plan
Prawns - Australia

Prawns - Australia

Watch the video - Born free, caught wild (8:40), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

 

Complete the Fishing Methods: Prawn Trawling in Australia lesson plan (Years 7-10) or (Years 11-12)

Tuna - Australia

Tuna - Australia

Watch a short video - Teeming with life: Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery certified as sustainable (1:33), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

Complete Case Study 1 from the Thank you, Fishers lesson plan

Western Rock Lobster - Australia

Western Rock Lobster - Australia

Watch a video - A Day in the Life of a Brolos Fisher (11:54), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

Complete Case Study 3 from the Thank you, Fishers lesson plan
Silver Lipped Pearl Oyster - Australia

Silver Lipped Pearl Oyster - Australia

Read the shorthand - Looking good, feeling good, doing good, and add this fishery to the student worksheet.
Blue Swimmer Crab - Australia

Blue Swimmer Crab - Australia

Read the shorthand - Looking after Bluey, and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

Squid - South Africa

Watch the video - White gold: South Africa’s squid jiggers are fishing for the future (3:04), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.
Squid - South Africa

Sardines - Mexico

Watch the video - Everyone eats Sardines: the sustainability story of Mexican sardines (3:53), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.
Sardines - Mexico

Cod - Iceland

Watch the video - Icelandic Cod Fishing (4:36), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.
Cod - Iceland

Blue Swimmer Crab - Indonesia

Watch the video - Meet the Indonesian women hooking into Blue Swimmer Crab (3:04), and add this fishery to the student worksheet.
Blue Swimmer Crab - Indonesia

Albacore Tuna - Aotearoa New Zealand

Read the story - Beyond the catch: The untold story of Kiwi fishers, and add this fishery to the student worksheet.

 

Albacore Tuna - Aotearoa New Zealand

Around the World...

Choose a fishery case study from around the world, and add it to the student worksheet.
Around the World...
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