Drs. Jill C. Fegley and Sara M. Lindsay University of Maine Lindsey Lab This lesson introduces high school students ... ...

Nov 24 2009 - 4:08pm

Alaska Sea Grant In an interactive game, students simulate fishery activity to demonstrate the effect of new technology and overfishing. They then rewrite the rules of the game in an ef ... ...

Nov 24 2009 - 1:35pm

WETA/PBS Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture Series Students design and conduct research to discover firsthand what type of fish is being sold in their community, where this fish comes fro ... ...

Nov 9 2009 - 6:00pm

Marine Stewardship Council A package containing lessons, worksheets, and activities to teach young students about sustainable seafood. Each subject has two levels: one for grades K-2 (k ... ...

Sep 24 2009 - 5:55pm

PBS – Jean Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures After an introduction to the variety of current fishing methods, students learn through an activity about the problem of bycatch and then des ... ...

Sep 24 2009 - 5:52pm

NOAA National Marine Sanctuaries Program The goal of this game is to illustrate to the students what happens to a fish stock when large amounts of biomass are removed from a particular ... ...

Sep 24 2009 - 5:40pm

WETA/PBS Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture Series Students will study and replicate a model of the factors affecting fisheries populations in the Chesapeake Bay (or any other bay). Throu ... ...

Sep 24 2009 - 5:39pm

Dr. Mahmood Shivji of the Guy Harvey Research Institute and Save Our Seas Shark Center sampling a confiscated shark fin for DNA analysis. He can determine the species ... ...

Feb 8 2010 - 8:43pm

Overfishing and sedimentation have heavily impacted this reef off the western coast of Guam. More about coral reef ecosystems can be found in our Coral Reefs featured story . ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

David Barouh displays fresh fish for sale at the legendary Pure Food Fish Market in Seattle’s Pike Place Market. Before you make your next trip to the grocery store, we hope you expl ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix indicates the location of scars on her tail from entanglements with fishing gear. More about the right whale can be found i ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

There were fewer than 450 North Atlantic right whales in 2006. Yet it has been illegal to hunt them since 1935. Why haven’t populations increased? Traits that made right whales easy ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

A white scar on Phoenix’s lip (at right) was caused by her entanglement with a fishing line. Learn more about the life of Phoenix, an actual North Atlantic right whale, in the ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

An early scale model of North Atlantic right whale Phoenix that was used to develop a life size model for the Smithsonian shows the location of scars on her mouth from entanglements ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am

This illustration shows how fishing lines attached to traps and buoys on the ocean floor present a potentially deadly hazard to North Atlantic right whales. Freeing entangled wha ... ...

Jan 26 2010 - 11:45am