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Designed for Levels 3-5 and adaptable material for levels 5+, in this topic we explore the practice of fisheries management… the process that creates and enforces rules to prevent overfishing and help recovery of overfished stocks recover.

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Well managed fisheries

Investigate the characteristics of a well managed fishery.

🎚  Level: 3-5+

Duration: 50 + minutes 

Curriculum areas: Science, Pūtaiao, Social Science, Tikanga-ā-iwi, Geography, Hauora

🌟 Key competencies: Thinking; Managing Self; Using language, symbols & texts; Relating to others

🔤 Keywords: Kaitiakitanga, Fisheries Management, Kaitiaki / Tiaki, Sustainable fishing

📌  Location: Indoors

⏭  Next steps (this topic): Traditional fisheries management, Quota Management System

⏭  Next steps (other topics): Business of fishing today, Future challenges and opportunities

📚 Prior learning: Overfishing; Sustainable fishing, Sustainable fishing and sustainable catch

The Marine Stewardship Council sustainable fishing standard requires fishers to demonstrate ‘well managed’ fisheries. Well managed fisheries use science and observation to ensure fish stocks stay healthy. Well managed fisheries have controls in place to manage fishing effort by, for example, limiting when and how people can fish.

Focus Questions:

What are some indicators of ‘well managed’ (sustainable) fisheries?

What new words and concepts have we learnt?

Learning outcomes:

Describe some indicators of well managed (sustainable) fisheries?

Use scientific and fishery management related vocabulary

Materials:

Well Managed Fisheries SLIDE SET

Well Managed Fisheries Teacher OUTLINE

Access to internet

Copies of Kaitiakitanga WORKSHEET

Something to write with

Activities include:

CONSIDER the concept of Kaitiakitanga

READ and ANSWER questions using the Kaitiakitanga WORKSHEET

INVITE a kaitiaki or tiaki to visit and speak

WATCH the short film on the Marine Stewardship Council’s standard

BRAINSTORM what we already know about fisheries management

DISCUSS ‘good’ sustainable fisheries management

WATCH the short film The fishery is well managed

LABEL a fisheries management diagram

BRAINSTORM indicators of good fisheries management

Fisherman's torso with metal ruler in hand, measuring lobster. Lobster traps and sea in background

Traditional fisheries management

Investigate traditional fishery management tools including tikanga and rāhui.

🎚  Level: 3-5+

Duration:  50+ minutes

Curriculum areas: Science, Pūtaiao, Social Science, Tikanga-ā-iwi, Geography, Hauora

🌟 Key competencies: Thinking; Managing Self; Using language, symbols & texts; Relating to others

🔤 Keywords: Rāhui, Kaitiakitanga, Tikanga, Kaitiaki / Tiaki, Rohe moana, Quota Management System

📌  Location: Indoors

⏭  Next steps (this topic): Quota Management System, EEZ & the Law of the Sea

⏭  Next steps (other topics): Kaitiakitanga

📚  Prior learning: Overfishing; Sustainable fishing; and Sustainable fishing and sustainable catch

Over hundreds of years Māori developed an intimate understanding (science of sorts) about fish and environment. Māori developed fishery management techniques or Tikanga (ways of doing things) to protect fish stocks and habitat. These practices are still used today and several traditional fisheries management tools (including rahui) are given expression under the Quota Management System (QMS).

Focus Questions:

What are some traditional fishery management tools used to manage fisheries sustainably in Aotearoa New Zealand?

What new words and concepts have we learnt?

Learning Outcomes:

Describe traditional fishery management tools used to manage fisheries sustainably in Aotearoa New Zealand

Use scientific and fishery management related vocabulary

Materials:

Traditional Fisheries Mgmt SLIDE SET

Traditional Fisheries Management OUTLINE

Access to internet (for film clips and extra learning on worksheet)

Copies of Te Kaitiaki Toheroa WORKSHEET

Something to write with

Activities include:

DISCUSS traditional fisheries management tikanga and tools

CONSIDER tikanga you might follow when fishing

WATCH the short film Guardianship

INVESTIGATE the Te Ara webpage on Traditional Practices

INVITE a kuia or Kaumātua or use your own knowledge to learn more about traditional fishery management practices

LIST traditional fishery management tools used by Māori

READ Te Kaitiaki Toheroa

COMPLETE the Te Kaitiaki Toheroa WORKSHEET

WATCH the short film Marae TV film about Toheroa 

WATCH Toheroa: Rejuvenating a Delicacy

DISCUSS how traditional fisheries management is still alive and incorporated into the QMS

5.3 QMS

Quota Management System

Explore some key features of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Quota Management System and some of the different viewpoints regarding it’s merits and success.

🎚  Level: 3-5+

Duration:  50+ minutes

Curriculum areas: Science, Pūtaiao, Social Science, Tikanga-ā-iwi, Geography, Hauora

🌟 Key competencies: Thinking; Managing Self; Using language, symbols & texts; Relating to others

🔤 Keywords: Quota Management System (QMS), Total Allowable Catch  (TAA), Quota Management Areas (QMAs), Illegal fishing

📌  Location: Indoors

⏭  Next steps (this topic): EEZ & the Law of the Sea; Topic review

⏭  Next steps (other topics): Illegal fishing, Business of fishing today, Future challenges and opportunities 

📚  Prior learning: Overfishing, Sustainable fishing, Sustainable fishing and sustainable catch

In Aotearoa New Zealand fisheries are managed under the Quota Management System (QMS). The QMS aims to limit the number of fish that can be caught to a sustainable level. Under the QMS a Total Allowable Catch (TAC) is made up of recreational, customary and commercial fisheries. By controlling the amount of fish taken by all sectors of the fishing community the QMS works to keep fishing sustainable. 

Focus Questions:

What are the key features of the Aotearoa New Zealand Quota Management System (QMS)?

What new words and concepts have we learnt?

Learning Outcomes:

Investigate key features of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Quota Management System

Use scientific and fishery management related vocabulary

Materials:

QMS SLIDE SET

Quota Management System OUTLINE

Access to internet (for film clips and extra learning on worksheet)

Copies of QMS WORKSHEET

Copies of Customary and recreational fisheries WORKSHEET

Copies of Sustainable oceans and seas WORKSHEET

Something to write with

Access to internet or copies of illegal fishing articles (Teacher outline page 7) and question cards (Teacher outline page 8)

Go Fish GAME

Activities include:

WATCH the short Seafood New Zealand film World Leading

DISCUSS the Quota Management System

READ and ANSWER questions using the QMS WORKSHEET

EXPLORE the idea that only commercial fishers can legally sell fish

READ and ANSWER questions using the Customary and recreational fisheries WORKSHEET

DISCUSS the idea that there are fishery management areas

WATCH the film Sustainable Oceans and Seas

Answer questions on the Sustainable oceans and seas WORKSHEET or play the Kahoot quiz called Marine Stewardship Council NZ Sustainable Oceans and Seas

Conduct a SURVEY of people’s opinions on the QMS

Survey people’s knowledge and opinions on the QMS

WATCH the short film Fishy Business

PLACE your own viewpoint on a views & values continuum

REFLECT and DISCUSS – What role do scientists play in looking after fisheries under the QMS?

COMPLETE A fisheries scientist story WORKSHEET

Conduct a GROUP ACTIVITY and INVESTIGATE illegal fishing in Aotearoa New Zealand

PLAY the Go Fish GAME

A visualisation of a fishery

EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) & Law of the Sea

Explore boundaries and rights that exist in different maritime zones and how our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) compares to those allocated to other countries. 

🎚  Level: 3-5+

Duration: 50+ minutes 

Curriculum areas: Science, Pūtaiao, Social Science, Tikanga-ā-iwi, Geography, Hauora

🌟 Key competencies: Thinking; Managing Self; Using language, symbols & texts; Relating to others

🔤 Keywords: EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone); Continental shelf, Territorial sea, UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

📌  Location: Indoors

⏭  Next steps (this topic): Review

⏭  Next steps (other topics): Jobs in the fishing industry, Fishing supply chain

📚  Prior learning: Overfishing, Sustainable fishing, Sustainable fishing and sustainable catch

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) established the right for countries to manage fisheries out to 200 nautical miles from land. This area is known as the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).  The advent of this was especially significant for Aotearoa New Zealand as we have the fourth largest EEZ in the world! 

Focus Questions:

What is the EEZ and how is this relevant to fisheries management?

What new words and concepts have we learnt?

Learning Outcomes:

Investigate the concept of EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone) and its relevance to fisheries management

Use scientific and fishery management related vocabulary

Materials:

EEZ & LOS SLIDE SET

EEZ & REVIEW OUTLINE

Access to internet

Paper or card to create a map

Something to write and draw with

Activities include:

CONSIDER how far out to sea we can catch fish?

CREATE a MAP of Aotearoa New Zealand’s ocean zones

EXPLORE this interactive map and look at different EEZs

5.5 Review

Review Key Concepts

Deepen understanding of fisheries management including the Quota Management System (QMS) by reviewing key concepts from Topic 5.

🎚  Level: 3-5+

Duration: 50+ minutes 

Curriculum areas: Science, Pūtaiao, Social Science, Tikanga-ā-iwi, Geography, Hauora

🌟 Key competencies: Thinking; Managing Self; Using language, symbols & texts; Relating to others

🔤 Keywords: Rāhui, Kaitiakitanga, Tikanga, Kaitiaki / Tiaki, Rohe moana, Quota Management System, EEZ (Exclusive Economic zone), UNCLOS (United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea)

📌  Location: Indoors

⏭  Next steps (this topic): None

⏭  Next steps (other topics): Jobs in the fishing industry, Fishing supply chain

📚  Prior learning: Overfishing, Sustainable fishing, and Sustainable fishing and sustainable catch 

Review key learning from topic 5.

Focus Questions:

What new words and concepts have we learnt?

Learning Outcomes:

Use scientific and fisheries related vocabulary

Materials:

REVIEW FISHERY MGMT SLIDE SET

EEZ & REVIEW OUTLINE

Access to internet

Something to write and draw with

Fisheries Management game (Teacher outline, page 5 - including chopsticks, plastic hand spades, lollies, shells etc)

Activities include:

INVESTIGATE the MSC website and review the different parts of the MSC story

PLAY the fisheries management game

Make and then take a QUIZ

Back to Topic 4

Back to Topic 4

Protecting the marine environment - He tapu te wai, he ora te wai

Forward to Topic 6

Forward to Topic 6

Seafood supply chain, jobs, illegal fishing & slavery at sea - Māu te taiata, māku te taiahiahi

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