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.]

Qst #1; “Home [not so] Sweet Home”

May 2nd, 2007

We are being bombed out by ‘terrorists’ . Our homes are barely existant and we live like the survivors of Hurricane Katrina . The reefs are duller , the colour drained out - bombing and cyanide . There is barely any food - bombing and cyanide . We are dying out due to competition and there is no safety for us to have our babies . The bombing and cyanide has not stopped .

2 Comments

  1. Philip - Philippines says

    If those terrorists would continue attacking your area, well then you really have no choice but to migrate to other place.It is really hard to live in a place wherein there is no full security and peace, I just can’t imagine myself living in a place wherein there is rampant bombing, defeaning sound, vanishing homes, and lives put to rest, i really won’t dare to live such place. If i were you, I will seeik for the nearest marine sanctuary possible. It is still the ideal place to live in. no bombing, safe from illegal acts and human’s selfish motives. Try living there and you’ll surely feel how nice it is to live life to the fullest.

    May 8th, 2007 | #

  2. Francine-Malaysia says

    you swim! :P

    May 13th, 2007 | #

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