Growing Salmon Sustainably

This resource aims to provide teachers of students in Years 5/6 with information to investigate fish farming/aquaculture in Australia and determine its future sustainability.

The learning objectives of the educational resources are to:

• Gain an understanding of aquaculture and why it is necessary to provide the world’s growing population with an important source of protein.
• Explore the best environmental conditions and optimal locations for growing/farming aquatic species, in a managed environment.
• Develop a flow chart to identify the supply chain, from hatchling to plate, of the Atlantic salmon, including the environmental and human influences each step involves.
• Develop mapping skills to represent and explain the best environmental locations for Atlantic salmon farms in Tasmania and in North America and Europe.
• Use data to predict the future of Atlantic salmon as a sustainable aquaculture product in Tasmanian waters
• Investigate the various viewpoints relating to the environmental management of a sustainable farmed fish industry
• Communicate their findings to an audience.