today’s objective develop a sustainable fishing strategy for your fishing community
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Fishing Your Way to a Sustainable Future
Today’s ObjectiveDevelop a sustainable fishing strategy
for your fishing community.
Fishing for Sustainability!This activity is a model that will help us
demonstrate what happens when people share a common resource.
As you work, think about What are the consequences of your actions? What’s going on with your fellow fisherman?How is your fish population doing? What’s going on in Blue Lake?
Fishing: The Rules of the Game! Don’t eat your fish… yuck!Your Chopsticks are your fishing pole, no
fingers!Once you catch a fish it must be placed in
your cup in order to count.No stabbing or crushing the fish, think about
sale-ability of your fish once they are caught!Regular gold fish are worth $1, Rainbow gold
fish are worth $2.
Take some time to practice your fishing technique!
Game A: DirectionsPlace 25 regular goldfish and 5 rainbow goldfish in Blue
Lake!Your fishing limit is determined by your character card,
share your fishing limit with your group.You have 15 seconds for each round, each game has four
rounds. You can catch as many fish as your limit allows If you don’t catch at least two fish, you are done fishing for
that game!You earn $0 for the first two fish, $1 for each additional
regular goldfish and $2 for each additional rainbow fish.Fish that aren’t caught reproduce. During any round, you may receive an incident card.
GAME A: DebriefAt the conclusion of the 4th round…
How did your fishing limit affect your behavior?
How did your fishing limit affect Blue Lake?How did each fisherman do financially?What is the condition of your fishing
community?What is the condition of Blue Lake? Is this
fishing practice sustainable?
GAME B and CAll the rules stay the same except the
Character Cards change.Start with 25 regular gold fish and 5 rainbow
fish in Blue LakeEach game has 4 rounds, 15 seconds each.
GAME B and C: DebriefHow did your fishing limit affect your behavior?How did your fishing limit affect Blue Lake?How did each fisherman do financially?What is the condition of your fishing community?What is the condition of Blue Lake? Is this fishing
practice sustainable?
Take a Break!What is the Shared Resource here?
How well is your group sharing this common resource?
Are you being selfish or working for the good of the whole group?
Discuss how the fishing is going and if you might use any strategies to increase or decrease the number of fish you’re catching.
GAME DYour group will create revised fishing limits
that you think will maintain healthy populations in Blue Lake.What are your indicators that Blue Lake’s
fishery is continuing to survive?Are there any trade-offs that you will need to
make?Play four rounds using your new fishing
limits; keep all other rules the same.Don’t forget to record your data!
GAME D - DebriefDid your new fishing limits change the results
of the game?What is the condition of the fishing
community? Did each person catch enough fish to survive? Did each person make money?
What is the condition of Blue Lake? Are there fish left?Is this fishing practice sustainable?
Tragedy of the CommonsWhat is a tragedy?
A great lossWhat is a commons?
The shared resource
Where there any Tragedies in your games?
How could your group avoid the Tragedy in Game D?
SustainableWas your Fishing Community Sustainable? Why or why not?
Sustainability is the capacity to support or maintain long term.
For a system to be sustainable; it should beSocially ‘fairness’;Economically viable;
andEnvironmentally
renewable to all of our natural resources.
Turn in for a Class Assignment Grade…Your completed data recording sheet.Written answers to three questions…
1. Did your fishing community experience a Tragedy of the Commons? If so, what was it?
2. What does it mean to be sustainable?3. Was your fishing community sustainable?
Explain how you know.