A-kids-to-kids on-line dialogue about our planet's fish crisis

For this blog, two questions were asked of NYC youth and Indo-Pacific youth:

Question#1: ["perspective of ocean fishes"] What is happening to our "homes": where we live, find food, have babies? [fish biology, basic sustainability concepts of marine ecosystem, types of destructive local and commercial fishing practices, etc.]

Question#2: ["perspective of Indo-Pacific and NYC youth"] How is over-fishing and the near collapse of your community's coastal ocean fisheries affecting you, your family, and community? [fish protein in your diet, fisherfolk parents conflicted re: "dirty-fishing" practices, need to move to the mainland where there's more food and more economic opportunities, towns are dying, etc.]

Please tell us what you think !

November 27th, 2007

Beginning today, we are opening this blog for a two-month period to solicit readers’ comments about the Fishes Feed Us Project. Please help us evaluate and improve the Project by answering the following questions:

  • What ideas, if any, does the Fishes Feed Us Project inspire about replication in your local communities to help raise public awareness about our ocean crisis and to encourage the establishment of ecosystem-based management plans for marine fisheries?
  • What are your other impressions and feedback about the Project?

    • Click here to read the 10 monologues that were selected from the blog. They were recited by our NYC 4th and 5th graders during the “Fishes Feed Us” performance that took place on June 5, 2007 on the United Nations Plaza as part of the UN’s World Environment Day activities.

    Thank you ! Your help is much appreciated.