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Overview: This lesson is a hands-on engineering and marine conservation challenge where participants design, test, and optimize fishing nets to target one specific species while also excluding unwanted catch. Trip Description: Bycatch is a serious problem for many marine fisheries. In this engineering challenge focused on fisheries and conservation, participants learn about bycatch and then design fishing nets that will maximize catch of a target species while minimizing bycatch. We’ll test the nets in a fishing competition, then redesign them to improve performance. Discussion will include examples drawn from fisheries management. Learning Outcome: Understand the concept of bycatch and its impact on the marine ecosystem.Apply engineering design principles to construct and redesign a model fishing net. Ocean Literacy Principle #5: The ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems Ocean Literacy Principle #6: The ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected
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