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.]

between life and death

May 10th, 2007

i feel paralyzed, i feel that i have lost my senses, something which has to deal with DEATH. I found myself swimming and living not in a sea anymore but in a canal of garbages, trashes and toxic materials. it’s so suffocating, so weakening and as i try to strive for life, i have already prepared myself that DEATH is just right behind me!

3 Comments

  1. Francine-Malaysia says

    it’s so sad to know that people are doing this to OUR homes! how would they feel if someone did that to theirs ?

    May 10th, 2007 | #

  2. Angelica - HSES/USA says

    We need people to realize that this kind of issues hit home. The only way people will do something is if they have an understanding this directly effects them.

    May 11th, 2007 | #

  3. Sameena - KKA/USA says

    The fishermen alone are not responsible for the destruction of “homes” caused by dirty fishing.
    Excessive nitrogen from human activities stimulates algae growth causing “dead Zones” due shortage of oxygen.
    Deforestation causes soil erosion that eventually goes to the seas and destroys coral reefs that provide sanctuaries to fishes.
    The hot surface water caused by global warming is resulting loss of phytoplanktons thereby greatly affecting food source of the fishes.
    Sustaining Marine Biodiversity has to be a collective effort rather than putting the ball on the fisher men’s court.

    May 11th, 2007 | #

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