Name: How One Community Saved Its Fish | National Geographic
Uploaded: 2021-02-22T22:30:22.000Z
Duration: 5 min 47 s
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I could see so many fish along the seashore, the beach...

I am 71 years old and I've always lived here, in Cabo Pulmo.

Fishing was very important for this community because  that was our means of living.

Then at 15, I became a professional fisherman.

We noticed that there was massive over-fishing.

That was the worst thing we could have done.

It was visibly noticeable that the fish population was declining

and that fishing here was no longer profitable.

There weren't enough fish here to survive.

We stopped fishing from one day to the next.

Since we saw how difficult it was to fish there, our generation,  my brothers and I were the ones who immediately said yes.

We needed to change this, because fishing was very difficult.  We invested a lot and we practically didn't get anything back.

It was very, very difficult but we made it.

It is a way of preserving the reef and dedicating ourselves  to something else,

They began to prefer transporting tourists because they knew  they got paid well and they consumed less fuel.

Besides, they were home early and that's what encouraged them  to give up the fishing.

It has already recovered, not 100 percent...

I think that my dad, my grandfather, seeing how the reef has recovered,  would think of how it was when they were young.

And they would say:  “It came back. The riches that we had as kids came back.”

Other generations will see this when we're gone.

We're the sentinels, watching over, and taking care of it.

And I tell the children: "I wish part of what I am telling you now remains  deeply etched into your minds and hearts,

so that even if there are no books talking about this, at least   you will keep the story alive once I am gone."