Starting to Notice

While perusing the blogosphere this evening I came across the blog of a Japanese tourist named Midori. She wrote this poem:
The sea of Mariana Islands has very good transparency and is beautiful.
Im visited the 5 Saipan.
But, fish decreased again.
Maine of this season. The crowd of eagle Ray disappears.
The fish are afraid of a human being.

We human being has injured the sea.
We must not injure the sea more than this.

We must protect the sea.
For children future as for it.

I continue taking the photograph of the sea.
To convey the beauty of the sea.
And to convey the importance of the sea.
MVA should be scared out of their minds right now knowing that people are taking stories home to Japan about the disappearance of our Eagle Rays.

Saipan is known for being a place where up to 70 Eagle Rays can be observed swimming at one time, particularly at two dive sites called Eagle Ray City and Ice Cream.

That this was written and published on the Internet is a very bad thing. Notice that Midori didn't say there was a reduction in the population. She says they have disappeared. It is now Eagle Ray season. Saipan went from Eagle Ray hot spot to Eagle Ray NOT spot in just one year. Not only that, according to Midori the number of fish in our waters has decreased again.

Want to know how the environment affects our economy? If too many stories like this continue to be written, we're all going to find out very soon. Stories like this will kill our diving and our tourism industry.

What are we going to do about it?