Hiwi the Kiwi Saving the Fish

Saving the Fish

Why do help we fish? What is a fish? Who is doing this? Why is this happening? So many questions pop into our heads when someone says “Saving the fish”. The most important question is why we should save these amazing creatures who can breathe as well as swim under water. It not about how they look nor is it about their size but it's about how each and every fish is still alive enjoying its life underwater. Not only does fish need saving but our water too. Pollution could potentially harm our sea Creatures. Scientists have identified 200 areas declared as 'dead zones' as not a single organism can be grown.

Today Hiwi the Kiwi came to our school to talk about saving our fish. Fish in maori is called Kai Moana. We know that Kia Moana is made up of 2 words Kai and Moana. Kai means Foods and Moana means sea. It important to save our fish as if no fish are saved our New Zealand food tradition Fish and Chips will be broken. What’s harming our fish are plastics. These hard misshapen plastics bottles could kill our Fish’s. Due to plastic pollution over 100,000 fish have died from all sorts of plastic..If we see plastic we should remove it from the ocean.

If all fish are gone people could lose their jobs as fishermen. We learnt that if we caught a fish we should measure it but if the fish was really big we needed to back them back as they are breeding fish. Using a Wet cloth and picking it up and putting it back into the water is another way to say our fish.We do this because if we use our hands the coating that is used to protect the fish’s scales will rub off and the scales will be damage. We needed to remember if we caught a fish we needed to put it in a bucket mixed with salt and ice.

Not only do our fish get harm but our Birds do throwing plastic in the sea makes the seabirds mistake them for food.There are about 1 million seabirds who died each year. Throw water at seabirds to shoo them away from boats when fishing - save our seabirds by keeping boats clean and putting bait away.They also taught us that safety was the most important thing when fishing. Children and Adults must wear life jackets as if the boat is in danger they can hop out and float using the life jacket. Always tell someone where you are going and when you are coming back if in danger use a flare so someone can spot the location you are endangered. Make sure that your boat is clean so it won’t attract birds.

Why do help we fish? What is a fish? Who is doing this? Why is this happening? The most important question is why we should save these amazing creatures who can breathe as well as swim under water. Remember It not about how they look nor is it about their size but it's about how each and every fish is still alive enjoying its life underwater. Not only does fish need saving but our water too. Did you know that over there are about 14 billion pounds of garbage into the ocean that is killing our Fish. If we don't stop what seafood is left to eat.