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Grade 5 · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 8

The Fishery and Outport Life

Cod, outports and how communities changed.

What your child practises

Your child learns about the cod fishery, outport life, resettlement and the 1992 cod moratorium, and thinks about fair, sustainable economic choices such as quotas. This is practice, not a report-card mark.

Newfoundland and Labrador Curriculum curriculum outcome: Individuals, societies and economic decisions (by Grade 6) · the fishery, outport life and how economic decisions changed communities

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    What is an outport?

    • a big city inland
    • a small coastal community, often far from larger towns
    • a ship that carries mail
    • a kind of fishing net

  2. Question 2

    Why is cod called a renewable resource?

    • It can grow back if we do not catch too many
    • It never runs out no matter what
    • It is made in a factory
    • It cannot be replaced

  3. Question 3

    Which resource, taken from under the ocean floor, has created jobs in the province since 1997?

    • sugar
    • oil
    • cotton
    • pearls

  4. Question 4

    What is a fish stock?

    • a type of fishing net
    • a group of one kind of fish living in an area
    • a soup made with fish
    • a pile of fish in a store

  5. Question 5

    Why was resettlement hard for many families?

    • They had to learn to swim
    • They had to give up all their money
    • They left homes and places their families had known for generations
    • They moved onto ships forever

  6. Question 6

    Who counts fish and advises how many can be caught?

    • scientists at Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    • cooks at restaurants
    • tourists
    • ship builders

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