It was 45 degrees and raining, so there were only four men out fishing. The first three were standing at the water at Market Slip. They all spoke Mandarin and did not want to speak to us.
The fourth guy was standing further south and did answer some of our questions. He spoke Cantonese, and was humorous in his responses. When asked if this was the best place to go fishing, he said "No! Of Course not! It's down by the pier (maybe pier 11?)... This is the old mens' fishing strip, only old people fish here. You can ride your bike down there, if you walk it'll take 30 minutes, for me if would take an hour."
He said this pier is where the younger people come to fish, and they catch a lot more fish there than he does.
He said he comes to fish only when he has time, which is about 3 times a week. He doesn't catch much, but sometimes he will eat what he catches. The other times, he'll just throw back the fish.
Bless and I are trying again next Thursday-- hopefully the weather will be a bit sunnier!
Hey guys,
ReplyDeleteI including some research about treatment of of run-off water as well as contaminated or brown-field areas.
Hey Dan And Katie, It is me again, I am having trouble blogging, I guess this dates me pretty badly. One of you would have to show me how to do this.
ReplyDelete.My interest from the very begging was flows of neighbors through the spaces and access to the waterfront.
.I also agree with the two of you about waterfront ecology as well as education. I would like to insert water-runoff remediation system as well as education.
.The concept of testbed still interests me, I see the fishermen, people using the spaces spontaneously as "tactic testbeds".