photo courtesy of Stuck In customs
When you think of Hong Kong you may think of a great fishing center, or at least you did 10 years ago. But Hong Kong is not that place anymore. In fact, most of the fish in Hong Kong fish markets are imported. Hong Kong’s own harbor has been so overfished and polluted that there are very few fish still swimming there, and the ones that are still there are not what you would call healthy. At this point Hong Kong is a microcosm, a miniature example of what the world could be like by 2048…except we wouldn’t have anywhere to import our fish from soooo it would be worse 
. I learned about this drastic situation in an article “Hong Kong’s ghostly seas warn of looming tragedy” by Lawrence Bartlet. Read it and be stunned my friends.
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Melissa Sue, thanks for posting this link, it is a fabulously scary topic, and sad at the same time. Hong Kong is just a small example to all other cities which were once great fishing ports. I grew up in Singapore, and although it is the world’s cleanest country…the surrounding seas are just as bad as hong kong, and there are really no fish left. It is sad to see these great cities surrounding by death and destruction in the water.