Improve Fishing Vessel Efficiency
Articles/Websites
Grades9, 10, 11, 12, APEarth and Space Sciences
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What it is
- This article highlights the carbon reduction possible by changing commercial fisheries' practices to lower their fuel use.
- Students will learn how upgrading fishing equipment can cut fuel use, thus leading to fewer emissions caused by commercial fishing.
Teaching tips
Positives
- This resource includes many helpful graphics, including one that explains Project Drawdown's rating of this solution as worthwhile.
- This article is brief, making it an excellent Project Drawdown resource for beginners to start with.
Prerequisites
- A basic familiarity with the units of measurement used in the article, gigatons or metric tons, will help with comprehension.
Differentiation & Implementation
- Provide students with a note-taking guide that directs them to summarize concepts, such as methodology and economic considerations, in order to organize significant findings while reading.
- Enhance students' understanding of climate solutions by allowing them to view these Climate 101 videos that provide background information on how to start enacting solutions to climate change.
- Consider pre-teaching new vocabulary prior to reading the article, allowing students to focus on comprehending big ideas in the text.
From the scientist review
This resource analyzes how implementation of the improved fisheries solution can reduce fuel usage, protect vulnerable fish species, increase catch, and avoid up to 1.54 gigatons of carbon emissions by 2050. Financials are not projected, though reducing fuel usage is certain to provide some cost savings. This resource provides a good introduction to improved fisheries, but the references cited must be investigated to have a fuller understanding of the proposal. Some discussion of the economic and social costs to fishing communities is presented, and this provides a great opportunity to engage students. This resource is recommended for teaching.
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