Case Study - Operation Backbone (Primary)
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Lesson duration is: 20 minIntroduction
This Case Study connects with our Lessons: Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing 1 - 4. It focuses on our campaign Operation Backbone in Canada targeting the overfishing of herring.
Instructions
This Case Study connects with our Lessons: Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing 1 - 4. It focuses on our campaign Operation Backbone in Canada targeting the overfishing of herring.
Contact: education@seashepherdglobal.org
© Sea Shepherd 2021
Instructions
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Slide 1 - Slide
Introduction
This lesson is provided by Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd was founded in 1977 and is a marine conservation organisation working to protect the ocean and marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd works globally on a range of issues impacting the oceans, running numerous direct action campaigns each year. IUU and overfishing is one area Sea Shepherd is working in to help protect the marine ecosystem.
This lesson is provided by Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd was founded in 1977 and is a marine conservation organisation working to protect the ocean and marine wildlife. Sea Shepherd works globally on a range of issues impacting the oceans, running numerous direct action campaigns each year. IUU and overfishing is one area Sea Shepherd is working in to help protect the marine ecosystem.
Slide 2 - Slide
During the lesson we will use these icons to identify the learning actions.
Slide 3 - Slide
Introducing Operation Backbone
Operation Backbone is defending herring. The aim is to protect the last herring in the Salish Sea, on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Department of Fisheries data in 2019 showed a 60% decline in herring numbers from 2016.
Herring were predicted to be approximately 122,291 tonnes in 2019, but only 85,700 tonnes actually returned. Despite declining numbers a commercial herring fishery is allowed to continue. The fishery not only targets herring, but herring roe.
Operation Backbone is defending herring. The aim is to protect the last herring in the Salish Sea, on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Department of Fisheries data in 2019 showed a 60% decline in herring numbers from 2016.
Herring were predicted to be approximately 122,291 tonnes in 2019, but only 85,700 tonnes actually returned. Despite declining numbers a commercial herring fishery is allowed to continue. The fishery not only targets herring, but herring roe.
Slide 4 - Map
Salish Sea, British Columbia
The map shows the Salish Sea off BC, Canada.
The map shows the Salish Sea off BC, Canada.
Slide 5 - Slide
Supporting local ecosystem
Herring are part of the local food chain, that supports local species, including Chinook Salmon and Southern Resident Killer Whales.
Herring are part of the local food chain, that supports local species, including Chinook Salmon and Southern Resident Killer Whales.
Slide 6 - Video
History of herring fisheries
Show this video (5.58min), which shows the history of the herring fisheries and the local food web it impacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4_2obn_6o
Show this video (5.58min), which shows the history of the herring fisheries and the local food web it impacts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc4_2obn_6o
Slide 7 - Video
Operation Backbone
Show this video (3.18min), which explains Sea Shepherd’s concerns for the herring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztNeDLyhDI
Picture an inland sea where millions of tiny fish return each year providing nourishment to an entire ecosystem, without which salmon, orcas, birds and marine mammals of the Pacific Northwest coast would be doomed.
Show this video (3.18min), which explains Sea Shepherd’s concerns for the herring:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nztNeDLyhDI
Picture an inland sea where millions of tiny fish return each year providing nourishment to an entire ecosystem, without which salmon, orcas, birds and marine mammals of the Pacific Northwest coast would be doomed.
Slide 8 - Video
Call end to herring fishing
Show this video (2.27min), which explains the call to end herring fishing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjq2SWzhFg
Show this video (2.27min), which explains the call to end herring fishing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjq2SWzhFg
What wildlife species would be impacted by the collapse of herring numbers?
Slide 9 - Open question
Ask students to complete their answers to the following question using the www.LessonUp.app or discuss in classroom.
“What wildlife species would be impacted by the collapse of herring numbers?”
“What wildlife species would be impacted by the collapse of herring numbers?”
Where are the herring and roe fisheries
sending their catch?
Slide 10 - Open question
Ask students to complete their answers to the following question using the www.LessonUp.app or discuss in classroom.
Discuss whether students believe that this is a justifiable use of herring compared to the needs of the ecosystem?
“Where are the herring and roe fisheries sending their catch?”
Write down three things you have learned?
Slide 11 - Open question
What did you learn?
Ask students to answer the following question using www.LessonUp.app or discuss in the classroom.
“Write down three things you have learned?”
Ask students to answer the following question using www.LessonUp.app or discuss in the classroom.
“Write down three things you have learned?”
Write down one thing you didn't understand?
Slide 12 - Open question
What don’t you understand?
Ask students to answer the following question using www.LessonUp.app or discuss in the classroom.
“Write down one thing you didn’t understand?”
Ask students to answer the following question using www.LessonUp.app or discuss in the classroom.
“Write down one thing you didn’t understand?”
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