September 2005 - Marine Education Society of Australasia

students who developed the program and ran
the day for their communication project.
Marine Biology is one of 30 elective subjects
offered to year nines, who select 4 of these
for their year. Students who undertake
Marine Biology attend a 3 day camp in
Queenscliff utilising the resources of the
Marine Discovery centre, attend fortnightly
self guided excursions to the Melbourne
Aquarium, and this year were fortunate
enough to be invited along to the AMC Blue
Fin on the School’s at Sea program. They
certainly experience a rich and varied sample
of the marine environment.
explain the concept behind the day (why on
earth we would be celebrating world Oceans
Day by eating fish!) and orders were taken.
The girls contacted Kallis and France,
distributors of Seaways products and were
kindly donated 270 crumbed NZ Hoki Fillets.
We were also donated 500 crumbed squid
rings through Seanet, but were unable to
accept these as our canteen does not have
the facilities to cook these.
The Lunch took place on World Oceans Day,
Wednesday the 8 th of June. Our canteen
prepared “Sustainable Seafood packs” with 1
fillet of fish, wedges and a MSC postcard.
Seaways oven fillets were promoted in the
school community and we raised over $100
for our marine labs. We hope to increase our
activities next year.
The students did a fantastic job at drawing
attention to overfishing and I thought gave
quite a balanced perspective on the
sustainable seafood issue.
Illegal Fishing……….
The idea behind the communication project
is that students are given broad guidelines
and told that they had to identify an
important marine issue or topic and
communicate this effectively to their peers.
Students are encouraged to focus on their
skills and strengths and as a result a wide
range of presentations were submitted last
term, ranging from a working echinoderm
water vascular system model, pollution
dioramas, whale biology posters, a report on
dredging and a sustainable seafood lunch!
Australia leads cooperation to
stamp out illegal toothfish trade
18 th July 2005
Fisheries experts from the Australian
Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
today began working with officials in
Mauritius to strengthen their ability to stop
the movement of illegally caught Patagonian
toothfish through key trading link, Port
Louis.
Australian officials, and an official from the
Commission for the Conservation of
Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
Secretariat, have begun a week long training
program in Mauritius. I am delighted that
this exercise again clearly demonstrates the
determination of Mauritius to become a
responsible member of the world fishing
community through its involvement with
CCAMLR.
The seafood lunch was promoted at school
assemblies and through posters around the
school. A letter was sent home to parents to
In the past, it has been suggested that Port
Louis was sometimes used by illegal
operators to land and tranship illegally
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