I have just been the talk "Communities, Coasts & Crises: "Managing Together on a Blue Planet" by Professor Anthony Charles. It was a great talk.

"Community-based mangement approach" that we care our environment starting from a local basis is the first and foremost step to take care of our ocean habitat. It is an ideal solution. BUT the main point is that it's not a must to join it. If some fishermen don't join it and keep destroying the ocean habitat, who has the right to stop them? Society is so real and harsh, at least to me. We concern about our benefits. Because we are nothing without the natural resources. We need to earn a living. And we feed on the natural resources. To think deeply, how many of us would purely think about the environmental conservation without any self-interest? For example, fishermen earn their lives by catching fishes. If fishing stocks declines, they are risky to loose their way of lives. They see the risk and they start to think about the environmental protection. To set up some rules, they need to obey with them together. At the first glance, they seem to be responsible on using natural resources more sustainably. But is it the main reason they obey the rules? Maybe... If one of the fishermen don't follow the rule, the remains would probably be angry with it. Since they are losing the chance to gain more when one of the fishermen won't follow.

We know our "Oceans in Crisis"; we know "Fisheries Declining"; and we know the "Pressure on the coast rising". These things are always the hot issue not only in Canada, but all over the world. But I wonder how many of us purely want to conserve and protect our blue planet. Perhaps I think too extemely. However, the reality always tells me that human world is so complicated and selfish. That's we are!!!!!!!!!!! That's the hidden part of civilization!!!!! (It's my stupid opinion.)