• bycatch [catching species in your nets other than ones you are fishing for – this may include turtles, other fish, small whales, dolphins and porpoises; they are then killed and thrown back in the sea]


• disruption of the ecosystem [fish live in complex ecosystems – family groups – and sometimes when too many are caught, this disrupts the balance of the food supply for other species, which may disrupt the food chain]


• habitat disruption [some fishing methods can spoil sensitive habitats, like coral reefs or estuaries, which are important breeding and feeding grounds for many different animals and birds; this in turn can make it hard for fish to find food, hide from predators and reproduce]


• sustainable fishing [finding ways to halt the fishing which is destroying the fish stocks and looking after the sea and the creatures that live in it, leaving enough fish for the future; one way to help with this is always to choose fish which has a mark on it to show that it has been sustainably fished – check the packaging]


• The children could use the information they find to help them design a poster which shows the importance of marine conservation and sustainable fishing.


• The poster could be in two halves, showing a fisherman fishing sustainably on one side and one fishing unsustainably on the other.


• It could show all the different ways of helping to make fishing more sustainable – such as using nets with larger holes so the young, small fish can escape; only fishing in certain areas, then leaving those areas alone to recover; having something to scare birds away to make sure they don’t get caught up in ropes; having a


special alarm on the net which makes a noise to scare away the dolphins and porpoises that you don’t want to catch.


• It could inform people about the importance of eating fish that is fished responsibly – and how they can check that their fish is from the right source.


ART


ENGLAND Pupils should be taught to create sketchbooks to record their observations and to improve their mastery of art and design techniques.


• Ask the children to research different artists’ work that either represents fish or has been inspired by fish – e.g. www.dianepeebles.com; or www.ipaintfish.com (modern art by J Vincent Scarpace) or, for a website devoted entirely to different forms of fish art from a range of artists, www.finefishart.com; you could also look at Chinese art such as www.inkdancechinesepaintings.com/fish-chinese-painting-artist, which links back to the Chinese folk tale ‘The Old Man and the Golden Fish’.


• Ask the children to talk about the variations in the artwork style – e.g. some are simply a picture of a fish, others are representations of the fish that keep the shape but change the colour.


• Encourage the children, if time allows, to make their own fish pictures demonstrating imagination and creativity from a source; e.g.:


• Bring in some dead fish (mackerel are not expensive, and have beautiful colouring), and get the children to sketch them, then refine their sketches and paint them or use pastels.


• Bring in some goldfish in a bowl, to give the children a choice of fish to paint. • Visit a local pet shop to ask if you can sketch, photograph or video tropical fish.


• If it’s not possible to work with real objects, use the many outstanding pictures, photographs and film available online as a stimulus.


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