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#2: Mangroves Vanishing…

May 4th, 2007

Sadly, mangrove forests here in the Philippines have been lost as a result of reclamation of coastal areas for housing, industry, fishponds and harvesting of wood for charcoal. If this will continue, our already failing fisheries will suffer more losses. Marine habitats like coral reefs and seagrasses will also be affected.

2 Comments

  1. Jasmine - HSES/USA says

    The everglades in Florida are a similar situation. For years they were improperly managed, but now there are efforts by the government and non-profits to protect and restore them.

    May 7th, 2007 | #

  2. Sameena - KKA/USA says

    Like that in Philippines, the largest mangrove forest ‘Sundarbans’ in the south coast of Bangladesh is also shrinking because of human activities. The largest tigers’Royal Bengal’ are facing dangers along with marine life.
    Why don’t we cry out loud”ENOUGH IS ENOUGH- CONTROL URBANIZATION & INDUSTRIALIZATION, SAVE THE NATURE”

    May 11th, 2007 | #

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