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Titel |
A Captive Ocean: Evaluation of Aquaculture, Fisheries Sustainabilty and Aquaria as Arks in the Setting of a Field-based Class |
VerfasserIn |
Stephen Macko, Matthew O'Connell, Heather Sullivan |
Konferenz |
EGU General Assembly 2015
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Medientyp |
Artikel
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Sprache |
Englisch
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Digitales Dokument |
PDF |
Erschienen |
In: GRA - Volume 17 (2015) |
Datensatznummer |
250113659
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Publikation (Nr.) |
EGU/EGU2015-13874.pdf |
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Zusammenfassung |
Sustainability awareness is increasingly a subject in educational settings. Marine science
classes are perfect settings of establishing sustainability awareness owing to declining
populations of organisms and perceived collapse in fisheries worldwide. Students in
oceanography classes often request more direct exposure to actual ocean situations
or field trips. During regular session (13 week) or shorter term (4 week) summer
classes such long trips are logistically difficult owing to large numbers of students
involved or timing. This new approach to such a course supplement addresses the
requests by utilizing local resources and short field trips for a limited number of
students (20) to locations in which Ocean experiences are available, and are often
supported through education and outreach components. The vision of the class
was a mixture of classroom time, readings, along with paper and laboratories. In
addition, short day-long trips to locations where the ocean was “captured” were also
used to supplement the experience as well as speakers involved with aquaculture.
Central Virginia is a fortunate location for such a class, with close access for travel
to the Chesapeake Bay and numerous field stations, museums with ocean-based
exhibits (the Smithsonian and National Zoo) that address both extant and extinct
Earth history, as well as national/state aquaria in Baltimore and Virginia Beach.
Furthermore, visits to local seafood markets at local grocery stores, or larger city
markets in Washington, Baltimore and Virginia Beach, enhance the exposure to
productivity in the ocean, and viability of the fisheries sustainability. The course
could then address not only the particulars of the marine science, but also aspects of
sustainability with discussions on ethics, including keeping animals in captivity or
overfishing of particular species and the special difficulties that arise from captive or
culturing ocean populations. In addition, the class was encouraged to post web-based
journals of experiences in order to share opinions of observations in each of the
settings, including the evaluation of the foods they were consuming during the
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