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Purse Seine

A purse seine is a huge wall of netting that is set in a circle around a school of...

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Demersal or Bottom Trawl

Bottom trawling is a type of fishing in which a large net is dragged along the...

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Red Listed: Study Finds One-Fifth of World's Vertebrates Are at Risk

A 2010 study of IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species found that one-fifth of the...

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Illustration of a New Fossil Whale, Bohaskaia monodontoides

A reconstruction of a new fossil beluga relative, Bohaskaia monodontoides,...

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Hawaiian Monk Seal

The critically endangered Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi) is one of...

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Tale of a Whale

Students exercise their observation skills to do some of the actual work of marine...

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Wreck Detectives

Students utilize a grid system to document the location of artifacts recovered from...

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WebQuest: Sensory Biology and the Plight of the Right Whales

This lesson introduces high school students (grades 9-12) to the topic of sensory...

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Fish and Kids

A package containing lessons, worksheets, and activities to teach young students...

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Game of Life

The goal of this game is to illustrate to the students what happens to a fish stock...

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Net Results

Students will study and replicate a model of the factors affecting fisheries...