Fishing for the Future

Fishing for the Future

Each year, the amount of fish in the marine waters are rapidly decreasing in
New Zealand and you wouldn’t have expected you could be the reason why. 

The cycle begins with the hands of a stranger like you and me, and the careless
actions of letting go of your plastic waste. World wide, over half the percentage of marine
pollution is plastic, affecting hundreds of our sea-animals.

This can simply kill a sea-animal in mistake of food. Plastic takes a long time to break
down, which will be bound to affect at least a single marine-animal. Plastic pollution takes
a big hand of this, but as well as a fisher. 

There are rules that should be followed when catching fish, like it being strictly 30cm
big to take home. Too big of a fish, means it won’t be able to breed more, and too small
of a fish means it won’t grow to size and won’t be able to breed. 

Next time you go fishing, remember to…

Hold the fish with a wet towel, as their protective coating can come off using just
your bare-hands, and put the salt-water fish in salt-ice too keep it fresh for cooking
and storing when it is the right size to catch. 

So let’s fish for the future and change our ways, with open-minds for out-come.
Taking action now, will be a huge benefit in future for our fish generation.

Last week Panmure Bridge had a special visit from the Hiwi the Kiwi, and are now taking part in the fun writing competition for an exciting prize. I chose to write an Explanation, to provide facts about the important situation. Using my book as planning, I wrote ideas for my final writing. Everyone finally DRAFTed our work with a partner, deleting mistakes and unnecessary words, rearranging ideas, adding left out words/punctuation needed, fixing the sentences/structure & languages and talking about all of these with a friend which was Angela. This is my final Explanation, for everyone to read.

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