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.]

seasonal fishes

May 10th, 2007

“TAMBAN”, a type of fish dwelling near the shore, it was the fish that my mother was used to eat but that was before.now tamban is rarely sold in the market because it is already a seasonal type fish. fishes in our market were smaller compared to fishes that were sold previous years ago.

1 Comment

  1. Jasmine - HSES/USA says

    This has been the plight of many fish in the North Atlantic as well. Now there are limits to the amount of fish you can catch many places. Environmentalist try to get the public involved by telling them not to eat certain fish such as swordfish. I think that education is the key. If people understand what is happening to fish they can try and help stop it.

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