Mid-Quarter Exams

            People think that Hawaii is the land were natures finest but since the foreigners came houses started to grow and expand. Over the past year the population increased 13,070 from the prior year. Total population in Hawaii right now is 1,374,810, and 68% of that isn’t even Hawaiian. People around the world think that we live in a exotic island with grass huts but in reality our beautiful mountains and green grass is now roads and thousands of houses.

           

            Hawaii has a majority of people around the world who come and visit but end up staying. The highest amount is Asians, that’s 38.5% following them is the white which is 27.1% and African Americans with 2.4%. That’s 68% of non natives living in Hawaii, not counting Pacific islanders and Indians etc. with all these people follows more houses to be built that cover our `aina. Around 401,000 natives live in Hawaii our of 1,374,810. When our Hawaiians found this land and now they are over ruled. They put so much hard work in this island to make it the best and then foreigners changed everything.

            Most of these people come to Hawaii for these main reasons. Weather , people, food and nature. When they first come here they stay on the side of the island that look like a fantasy. Clothing stores everywhere, beaches everywhere you go and people getting paid to say aloha and welcome etc. These  tourist should go all around the island and see the true heart of the island. Go and see what else is out there instead to staying in one spot and declare you will move here. Nature is a big reason why people want to move here but the more and more of them come the more houses need to be built and cove up our beautiful island.

            One thing everyone need in this island is a car. Hawaii is in the top 10 states to have the worst traffic. Since we only have one freeway everything gets all jumbled there. And majority of those drivers are tourist. It just packs on and on with the other 1,374,810 people that drive. With all that traffic it just make pollution that makes another issue on this island. Hawaii should have a limit. We are just one small island with people trying to jam themselves in it.

            To sum everything up Hawaii isn’t a perfect paradise. We have traffic like everyone else, houses live everyone else, and OVER POPULATION JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE.  Give us a break and a little bit of space.

            

Ocean Of Nothing

            Fishermen need to stop over fishing and start making limitations. Over time one of our healthiest type of meats are going to e extinct. According to a marine biologist at Dalhouse Universityu in Halifax Canada, by the middle of this century, fishermen will have almost nothing left to catch

            About 90% of the oceans big predators like cod and tuna have been fished out of existence, because of this its going to be too rare and expansive. Although the shrimp and fish farms  are filling the shortfall, though touted as a solution to overfishing many of them have along with rampant coastal development. The fisherman need to understand what is at steak when they go fishing. Some people only eat fish as there protein but if it gets more expansive some wont even be able to buy it. Also goes out for the fishermen, since things are getting expansive they could lose money.

            Climate change and pollution devastated the reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds where many commercially valuable fish hatch.  There should be a month where fishermen can’t fish so the fish could have time to accumulate and grow. Worm argues that fishers based on ecosystems stripped of their biological diversity are especially prone to collapse. Atleast 29% of fished species have already collapsed, according to the study, and the trend is accelerating.

            To sum everything off, fishermen should really think about what they are doing to the underwater world and how it affects everyone. The world is divided land walkers get dry land and the under water animals get the ocean. The fishermen should give respect to the ocean and consider limitation .