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Monday, October 09, 2006

Tuna fishing in Indonesia

This summer I had a chance to meet a rich Japanese businessman. He told me an interesting story and I wanna let you guys know. The story is about tuna fishing in Indonesia. According to him, price of tunas is now going up in Japan because we can import fewer tunas than before. And one of the reasons is that we get fewer tunas from Indonesia. And he himself headed to Indonesia to see the situation with his own eyes. What is surprising is that Indonesian people fish only 1 or 2 tuna(s) in one day with a small banana boat!! Crazy!! And you know what!? They carry those heavy tunas with their shoulders!! I mean Indonesian government made a rule to prevent overfishing. They wanted to protect their environment from Japan. Now the situation seems to be better. Japanese people love sea foods. And we often influence marrine lives in the world. For example, We overfished whales before. What is more, we love shrimps very much and we are killing plenty of mangroves in Thailand. So we always need to think what is right and what is wrong in our lives. Nature is not ours. But we have to live as a human. So the keyword is "symbioses." This applies to our human lives. We have differnt culture, different language, different way of thinking, different religion, but we should live together on this planet. Consider what you should do to let other guys live with you. That's it! Thanks.

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