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Happy World Ocean Day!

Mark your calendars for June 8, 2025, as the world comes together to celebrate World Ocean Day. This annual event serves as a reminder of the critical importance of protecting our oceans and marine life.

Use our teaching and learning resources to show your class how sustainable fishing contributes to protecting our ocean for generations to come.

This World Ocean Day you can help protect the ocean

The ocean sustains our whole planet. It contributes to the air we breathe, the food we eat, the livelihoods of millions of people and so much more. And yet the health of our ocean is under threat from global warming and human activities such as overfishing.

World Ocean Day is our moment to show how sustainable fishing contributes to protecting our ocean.


Three things you can do to protect our ocean


  1. Inspire younger generations to learn more about the ocean and how they can protect it
  2. Promote ocean literacy in my classroom, finding ways to make the ocean relevant to the curriculum I teach and the materials I use
  3. Show younger generations how sustainable fishing helps protecting our ocean

Sustainable fishing means...

more fish

*16 million tonnes

more wild seafood could be fished each year if all fisheries were sustainably managed.
What is sustainable fishing?

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*400+ environmental improvements

protecting ocean biodiversity made by MSC certified fishers in the last 3 years.
What is sustainable fishing?

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*20,000+ sustainable seafood products

with the MSC label, across 66 countries, sourced from over 500 certified sustainable fisheries.
What is the blue label?

Play our World Ocean Day quiz on Kahoot...

Kahoot quiz: What does Sustainable Fishing mean?

Kahoot quiz: What does Sustainable Fishing mean?

We prepared a quiz that your students can play to find out more about the ocean and the role of sustainable fishing in protecting it.

You can create a challenge for this quiz on Kahoot without needing an active Kahoot account. You can create your challenge as a guest following this link. 

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Learning resources for 7 to 10-year-old students: "Sustainable fishing gadgets"
Description: What is your favourite sustainable fishing gadget? An education activity recommended to 7 to 10-year-old students to improve their learning about sustainable fishing and the role it plays in protecting the ocean.
Date of issue: 27 May 2024
Download download file PPTX - 33 MB
Learning Resources for 10 to 14-year-old students: "The Big Ocean Mystery"
Description: Can we keep eating fish, and still have enough fish in the ocean? An education activity to improve understanding about sustainable fishing and the role it plays in protecting the ocean.
Date of issue: 27 May 2024
Download download file PPTX - 24 MB

Activities for younger children (under 8 years old)

Meet the Wild Ocean Explorers, who are ready to take children under eight on trip to the ocean with our fun and creative activities.
Activities for younger children (under 8 years old)
Learning resources for 10-15-year-olds

Learning resources for 10-15-year-olds

Browse our selection of curriculum-linked lesson plans and resources for geography and science classrooms, from worksheets and photos to fact sheets and discussion topics.

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