Human culture is dominated by problems arising from people living in large numbers and their needs for mass-produced foods, goods, and services. These needs are served by industrialism which has supported human development for the past two centuries. Our delights and sorrows all stem from industrialism yet it hardly enters the education system at any level. The project is about the design an educational model of the fishing industry to promote a new subject centred on industrialism called cultural ecology. Cultural ecology deals with the relationships between people and the technologies they invest in to make money out of local natural resources. The fishing industry is particularly edifying because it is of necessity a dynamic balance based on ecological cycles, and is potentially self-sustaining. As a process it contrasts with the linear mechanisms of economic growth. It also lends itself well to the assembly of closed-cycle computer models for individualised learning. The principles of overfishing are applicable to all natural resources. In this respect, the historical development of the fishing industry follows a cultural cycle characteristic of the exploitation of other natural resources such as coal and iron. This is summarised as a series of phases which mark the progression from a utilitarian to a conservation economy:- 1 The technical challenge 2 Birth of an idea 3 Launching the innovation 4 Investment in labour and materials 5 The economic heyday 6 Economic obsolescence 7 Discovering the heritage 8 Mounting the conservation campaign 9 New opportunities for education and leisure Cultural ecology is really a mind map which links the use of non-human habitats with the human ecologies of 'self' and 'community'. The interactions betweenthese three ecologies give a holistic perspective in which a range of human values, not just the monetary value, are brought to bear on environmental management for the long term benefit of humankind.