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This is the original Master List of Saipan blogs. I link to almost all of the Saipan blogs. I have updated the list and posted it HERE . Please update your links.

Follow me elsewhere: AngeloVillagomez.com | LinkedIn | Instagram | Threads | Bluesky I started this website in 2004 in the months after I graduated from Rollins College in Florida and was an avid blogger between 2005-2012. The Saipan Blog documents my journey from Florida, to Japan, to Saipan, then back to Florida, and up to Washington, DC where my career as a professional ocean advocate really took off. Along the way I helped create a big protected area and then my focus shifted to sharks and ultimately Indigenous-led conservation. Even though I haven't put much effort into this website in many years, it still gets readers and the most random of people will talk to me about it now and then. This is officially my last post here. I put countless hours of effort into this website, so I'm going to leave it up until Google decides to take it down. I enjoyed my time as the Saipan Blogger. Thanks for reading. ...

Practicing my culture

Sometime in the last 20 years, locals in the CNMI came to understand conservation as a bunch of haoles telling indigenous people not to fish, not to feed their families, and not to practice their culture. They are mistaken. Conservation has always been an integral part of Micronesian culture. I learned it from my father and I know these guys learned it from theirs. Even so, times have changed. The definition of conservation has changed along with it. Old habits and old technologies result in expected outcomes. 1000 years ago when a Chamorro went out to catch fish using the technology available to him at the time, he could safely assume that he wasn't destroying his resource. No new technology was going to be introduced to help him catch more fish and no huge influx of off-islanders would be coming to his home anytime soon (at least for another 500 years). The only thing he needed to navigate his world were the stars, the waves, and the wind. He lived the way his gr...

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