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It's Time to Save the Fish!!!!!

Kids, this is your day. It is time to make a difference. You can do something to save the world. With just one easy thought, you will be all set:  FOR 5 DAYS A WEEK, SAY "NO FISH IN MY DISH".

Take a moment and check out this web site: www.nofishinmydish.com 

Author Jason Kelly has written a wonderful new children's book called "No Fish In My Dish". 

 The Tsukiji Fish Market is as big as 5 foot ball fields. It is completely stocked by 4 am and all the fish are gone by 8 am!

 He visited the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo a few years back and was
amazed at how many fish it processed in a single day. He asked himself,
"How many fish can there be in the ocean?" so, he decided to check.

Not
enough, it turns out. With the people population growing every year and
the fish population declining every year and our ways of catching fish
improving all the time, it was obvious that the fish couldn't last
forever. In fact, that's true.

He discovered that a number of
excellent books have been written on the subject of overfishing.
Studies have been commissioned. Speeches have been spoken. Laws have
been passed. Yet, the fish population keeps declining.

Existing
material isn't working. As long as there's a market for fish, the fish
will be caught. The only way to stop the depletion is to slow the
buying of fish. His target became not the supply side of the problem,
but the demand side. If people slow their buying, the industry will
slow its catching.

Next, He had to come up with a solution. Just
telling people to stop eating fish entirely wasn't reasonable. Fish are
too much a part of human culture. I decided that eating fewer fish was
the answer.

If we refrain from eating fish for five days a week,
that'll be enough to let the populations catch up to healthy levels
again. At the very least, they'll stop swimming toward decimation.

Finally,
how to get that message to a world unaware of the problem? A simple
book that rhymes, He decided. Another in-depth book wouldn't work. They
hadn't before, why would mine be any different? He needed an
entertaining book, with cute illustrations, and a story simple enough
that a child could understand it. It would need to be short to get the
message across quickly. Also, it should not target any specific country
or culture. It should be universal.

That's the book He wrote and illustrated, and made available to you on this site.
The characters have no names. They are not Chinese, American, or
Japanese. They are all of us, because all of us together are causing
the problem. His hope is that you:

* WILL take the book's message to heart
* WON'T eat fish for five days a week
* WILL join the no fish list
* WILL tell Darci your publicity ideas
* WILL spread the word to others about this powerful little book and its message

So, as the book says, "For Five Days A Week, Say:  'NO FISH IN MY DISH'"