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.]

Q#1: “Garbage Everywhere!”

May 3rd, 2007

I am hungry for a couple of days now. I exerted all my effort to swim closer to those floating foods but to my dismay, those colorful floating foods that I can hardly bite made me feel sick. So I returned home to discuss with my Mother about what I saw. It turned out that the stuff I ate were plastics thrown to the seas by thoughtless humans! It didn’t taste good! Worse, it made me feel ill! I will never try eating those again…Ever!!

3 Comments

  1. Francine - Malaysia says

    It’s so sad to see that the humans dont understand how they’re affecting us. If only we could communicate with them just to tell them how we feel about what THEY are doing ..

    May 7th, 2007 | #

  2. Richard - HSES/USA says

    Its not that humans dont understand its that they are lazy. we need to make them help!!

    May 7th, 2007 | #

  3. Philip - Philippines says

    hi Francine and Richard. humans really could hardly understand our situation. I guess it is a factor to consider that they dont undestand us and they are lazy. for me the greatest thing to consider here is that they are undisciplined and uneducated. if they were so, then they would surely stop doing that thing.

    May 8th, 2007 | #

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