TROUBLED WATERS: A MAN, A GUN AND THE RESTORATION OF A PACIFIC FISHERY

摘要

n the 1970s, Dakio Paul left his birthplace, the tiny South Pacific island of Pohnpei, for the larger, more developed island of Saipan, about a thousand miles west. A onetime fisherman, Paul hoped to find something with better pay and eventually founda job in the tourist industry. Paul worked on Saipan for some 20 years, got married and then decided to return to his roots. He wanted to be a fisherman again. Paul returned to Pohnpei in 1995. He went straight from the airstrip to his village, got in aboat and headed out to his old fishing grounds on the coral reef that rings the island, near a place called Black Coral Island. When he was a boy, the spot, known locally as Kehpara, teemed with fish, particularly several species of grouper, as well asturtles and a large seabird colony on small neighboring islets.