Marine Biodiversity

From the discussion about marine biodiversity in the class last Thursday, I have two topic that I missed a chance to share, so I would like to talk about them here. One is about the education. Aaron pointed out the education is important for keeping us tied to sea animals and ocean itself. Growing up with it makes us care about it. I believe that this is the first step to think about what is right thing to do to solve enormous number of issues. But, even if we are educated and understand the aspects of sea animals, everyone has different idea when we make a "right" decision. Do you choose wild fish or farmed fish? Do you choose wild fish because it's healthier and tastier than farmed fish? Do you choose farmed fish because of evironmental reason? Both reasons are seem to be concerned and correct, but altimately we have to agree with what is the most significant thing to do. Since we can't force people, how much individuals care about the issues makes difference.
Another thing is weather we can take fish out of our diet or not. The answer from Japanese people is NO. That implys the abandonment of Japanese food culture because fish are tied with the traditional food. But what we can do is make less for everything. Our text book, The Principles of Environmental Science states that we come up with the idea of making things as products is when we start destroy our "mother." I agree with this idea. We value too much on money and enrich your life by being rich which I think it's wrong. Everybody should be happy with decent amount of money and not being selfish. Eat less fish suggests less restaurant, according to our discussion, they throw tons of fish away. So my conclusion is that make a boom of cooking at our house and convince them to get involved with fish market industry. More people become smart on what is the best way to eat or choose fish makes more effective to the whole aspects of fishary industry.