4.3 Aquatic Food Production Systems

Significant Ideas:

• Aquatic systems provide a source of food production.

• Unsustainable use of aquatic ecosystems can lead to environmental degradation and collapse of wild fisheries.

• Aquaculture provides potential for increased food production.

Applications & Skills:

• Discuss, with reference to a case study, the controversial harvesting of a named species.

• Evaluate strategies that can be used to avoid unsustainable fishing.

• Explain the potential value of aquaculture for providing food for future generations.

• Discuss a case study that demonstrates the impact of aquaculture.