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Or as our friend here would say ... (Prerecorded fishing cat sounds) Thank you.
I spent a decade working with fishing communities in the Caribbean, counting fish, interviewing fishermen, redesigning fishing gear and developing policy.
Their fishing is generally more selective and sustainable than the indiscriminate destruction too often wrought by bigger industrial boats.
These coastal people have the most to gain from conservation because, for many of them, fishing is all that keeps them from poverty, hunger or forced migration, in countries where the state is often unable to help.
I approached elders here in the village of Andavadoaka and recommended that they close off the healthiest and most diverse coral reefs to all forms of fishing to form a refuge to help stocks recover because, as the science tells us, after five or so years, fish populations inside those refuges would be much bigger, replenishing the fished areas outside, making everybody better off.
My earnest appeal to fish less took no account of what that might actually mean for people who depend on fishing for survival.
We reasoned that protecting just a small area of fishing ground for just a few months might lead to dramatic increases in catches, enough to make a difference to this community's bottom line in a time frame that might just be acceptable.
The community thought so too, opting to close a small area of reef to octopus fishing temporarily, using a customary social code, invoking blessings from the ancestors to prevent poaching.
When that reef reopened to fishing six months later, none of us were prepared for what happened next.
Neighboring villages saw the fishing boom and drew up their own closures, spreading the model virally along hundreds of miles of coastline.
When we ran the numbers, we saw that these communities, among the poorest on earth, had found a way to double their money in a matter of months, by fishing less.
They outlawed fishing with poison and mosquito nets and set aside permanent refuges around threatened coral reefs and mangroves, including, to my astonishment, those same sights that I'd flagged just two years earlier when my evangelism for marine protection was so roundly rejected.
But all that is just the beginning of the story, because this handful of fishing villages taking action has sparked a marine conservation revolution that has spread over thousands of miles, impacting hundreds of thousands of people.
According to FAO, if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050.
Fishing, breeding, farming are still the world's foremost human occupations.
There were smaller versions for fishing and local excursions, and larger adaptations for open sea voyages capable of carrying tens of tons of cargo.
Tens of thousands of these fibers spun into yarn will go on to make everything from fabric, to coffee filters, diapers, and fishing nets.
The villagers live off the sea, harvesting reeds, drying them in the sun, and using them to build fishing boats.
I am from Japan, so I'd like to start with a story about Japanese fishing villages.
We need to recreate the social contract of the fishing villages on the global scale.
Or you start fishing.
But, again, heavy fishing pressures.
This is one of the last repositories of the Ganges river dolphin, various species of turtles, thousands of migratory birds, and fishing is causing problems like this.
My favorite warning was one on a five-inch fishing lure.
I grew up in the South and whiled away the summers fishing.
Five-inch fishing lure, it's a big fishing lure, with a three pronged hook in the back, and outside it said, "Harmful if swallowed."
For the past 50 years, we've been fishing the seas like we clear-cut forests.
Not by the latest combine and tractor invention, but by fertile land; not by pumps, but by fresh water; not by chainsaws, but by forests; and not by fishing boats and nets, but by fish in the sea.
He was a slave child in Ghana enslaved in the fishing industry, and he now, after escape and building a new life, has formed an organization that we work closely with to go back and get people out of slavery.
KB: James and our country director in Ghana, Emmanuel Otoo are now receiving regular death threats because the two of them managed to get convictions and imprisonment for three human traffickers for the very first time in Ghana for enslaving people, from the fishing industry, for enslaving children.
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