Hiwi the Kiwi

Do you enjoy fishing? You’re in luck, because today I’ll be telling you some
interesting facts about water safety, seabirds, fish, facts, and why our
ocean matters.

Fishing for the future is all about keeping our ocean safe and making
sure we leave fish if they are too big, our too small. If it's too small, it's most
likely still a baby and still needs to grow up into an adult. If the
fish is way too big, it could be a mother with babies in it's stomach, which
is why you should leave it in the ocean and let it live. And you must make sure
you don’t catch lots of fish, you should be consider others who fish, they might still

want to catch some.

Water safety is very important! You have to make sure you’re
wearing a life jacket on a boat, kayak, paddleboard, canoe and
more. Don’t leave the life jacket
at the other end of the boat in case the boat/kayak/paddleboard/canoe has an accident.
In case it happens too fast, leave your life jacket on. I also think that it's very
important the children are taught swimming in schools. This is because students should
be able to swim in case their boat (or whatever they’re using), for example, flips over,
they are able to swim to safety.

You don’t want to catch a seabird, right? That’s why it's really important that you

don’t catch a seabird! In other words, SOS. SOS means Save Our Seabirds.
There are birds that are almost completely gone, for example the Black Petrel bird. The Black

Petrel is a New Zealand bird, and it looks wonderful, I would hate to have them extinct.

There are also some seabirds who mistake plastic for food and accidentally eat it.
Once they eat the plastic, no other food can get through, and they end up dying. It's
very sad. That’s why we should SOS!

When you catch a snapper, make sure the fish is 30cm before you catch
it. If it's under 30cm it's too small to be caught. That’s why you should bring a ruler
to measure it. When you measure the fish, you have to measure it from the middle
of the tail to the nose. Make sure that once you catch it, pick it up with a wet towel
so that you don’t remove any of the scales. If you remove the scales and end up
putting it back, the fish will die. If you do catch it and take it home, put it in salt ice.
If you put it in salt ice it’ll stay nice and cold for you to eat.

Here are some interesting facts that I think you should keep in mind. Kai
Moana means seafood in Maori, did you know that? There are also more than
3000 kinds of fish! Which is why you shouldn’t litter because you wouldn’t want to
kill any fish, especially 3000 different kinds. But unfortunately, over 1000 of those
fish species are threatened by extinction. I think that it's very sad that some fish
species might go completely extinct. And 6.5 million tons of litter enter

the world’s ocean each year! I find that very disappointing to hear.

I know that lots of people already know that our ocean is important, but
sometimes people still litter, and the rubbish ends up in the ocean. Here are
some good reasons on why our ocean matters. You may not know this, but
the ocean produces half of the worlds oxygen. And of course, oxygen is very
important. Otherwise, how would we be breathing? Anyways, lots of people
can get sick sometimes. The ocean can help fix

that, actually. The ocean provides medicine ingredients, some that could
even cure diseases. They also contain more than 97% of the world’s water.
So make sure to pick up any rubbish you see on the

beach.

Did you learn something? I did. Make sure to share this information, thanks for reading!