A wake up call

Studies show if we do nothing a bout over fishing, we will not have any fish left in 30 years. But even though people know this, we still don’t do anything to fix this problem. Why is that? Well maybe it’s because we as humans are greedy? Or that we are to lazy to even try to make an effort, a little effort that is needed so we can prevent this problem that will affect us, the food chain and life as we know it.

I have many Hawaiian friends and many responsibilities as a Hawaiian. One of my jobs as a Hawaiian is to revive are culture. My teacher told me, something that makes a Hawaiian, Hawaiian is not just their blood or that he can simply speak Hawaiian, it’s the way they do the things they do. Hawaiians have a specific way of doing many things. Fishing is one big part in are culture that helps us connect to our kupuna (ancestors), And one of their models they live by was to take what you need, because they knew if you take too much you will run out, and our younger generation will have to suffer are consequences. He aliʻi ka ʻāina a he kauā ke kanaka. The land is our chief and we are its sevrents, without it there will be no us, with out fish there will be a part of us Hawaiians lost.

To prevent this problem from growing, to prevent a part of are connection to our ancestors being lost we must act upon the problem now. It’s not only over fishing and taking what you need that is creating this problem. It’s also what we do to our land, and exhausting our resources that creates many problems in our ecosystem. Everything connects in a way. If something little can play a big part in the world, then why don’t we start to do a little of something that helps prevent losing our fish.

Opportunities come and go. We can use this time to appreciate the opportunity of having a chance to fix the wrong things we have done by restoring the fish we taken for granted. Lets work together to keep this connection between our kūpuna strong and never let it fade. For the things we do on our lad, let’s take caution on the things we do in are everyday life. From throwing are trash in the right place to deciding what brand of water we by, we must think of the consequence so that the generation that’s coming will have the same joy we had fishing, eating the fish, listening to the stories that been told a bout fish and the lesson that we learned from fishing. Lets not this become a myth but make it become a legend.