Marine Higher Education as a Laboratory for Resilient Decision‑Making: Integrating Intuition, Data, and Sustainability

Overfishing, pollution, and climate change endanger marine ecosystems. Growing aquaculture uses global harvesting expertise to boost production and sustainability. Digitization must preserve human ecological knowledge for complicated maritime decision-making. Sustainability aquaculture research rarely names human intuition as a skill relevant to judge ecological knowledge. Aquaculture students will see industrial technology. Integrating knowledge from marine social science, cognitive psychology, higher education didactics and sport for all-philosophy may help students train their cognitive versatility early. Educator-focused professional development prepares aquaculture students for resilient decision-making by increasing cognitive versatility while engaged in higher education. A problem-based-learning curriculum with sport-for-all movement treatments to improve student cognition and executive functions is the best way to educate aquaculture managers for the long-term demands of the industry. We employ current research on how purposeful practice scaffolds intuition to enable aquaculture graduates to make resilient, context-aware judgments in complex socio-ecological systems. Teaching resilient decision-making in higher education aquaculture has many advantages, since marine social science has not studied cognitive flexibility, thus this call intends to build strong aquaculture decision-making procedures.