Fish Health

Fish Health builds upon information covered in the Habitat Sense and What's in That H2O? stations to give a species perspective on possible environmental stressors that could compromise a fish's health in a watershed.

NGSS: HS-LS2-6, HS-LS2-7, HS-LS4-6, HS-LS4-5, HS-ESS2-5, HS-ESS3-1 WA SCIENCE Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs): 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2

Objectives

• Explore how humans affect water quality and habitat in ways that affect fish health and actions that could be taken in the watershed to benefit fish health
• Understand how water quality and fish habitat quality interact to affect fish health.
• Predict and measure sub-lethal effects to fish based on water quality and habitat conditions.
• Understand how fish behavior and use of habitat/cover can affect a fish's predation risk.
• Identify basic parts and function of internal and external fish anatomy.
• Identify potential effects to fish anatomy from contaminants and/or disease.

Concepts

• To build upon information covered in the Habitat Sense station (that discusses habitat quality) and in the What's in that H2O? station (that discusses water quality) by giving a species' perspective on possible environmental stressors that could compromise a fish's health in a watershed.
• Fish health; measuring sub-lethal effects of watershed health; and fish anatomy.
• Using the scientific method to evaluate how differences in fish habitat and water quality can affect fish survivability.