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.]


Better late than never

May 12th, 2007

I am afraid about what’ll happen to our mother planet by the time we grow and what is left in store for the next generation. After 50 years people might go to the museums to see different specimens of fish instead of seeing it on the dining table.Did our parents grow up with such concerns? I don’t think so, or else we would not have reached such a dreadful stage. Had they known that so called man made developments would create such an ecological imbalance, then safety of the earth would have been the most important question. Under the garb of development the species called “humans” are eating this earth at a faster pace. Anyway, better late than never. The marine eco-system is as sensitive as a house of cards. This is an integrated problem and the cause of all the problems are well known to us. To solve the problems the most important thing is that we must generate awareness, specially amongst the elders. Then they will take good decisions to save the earth and thereby save the marine lives. This would need sacrifice and we all must be prepared to do that for the future.

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