What this typhoon shows is how fragile this small island is. Palau can ignore a bully, but it can’t ignore climate change, because whether we like it or not, it’s here.

Palau was hit by Typhoon Surigae last week, but even the typhoons that don’t claim lives or flatten cities are devastating for those who live through them

"We should stop fishing herring so numbers can go up so there can be more older herring. Eggs on kelp is better than sac roe fisheries because sac roe fisheries are killing female herring . Unfortunately, commercial fishing is just killing most of the herring to get the eggs or just the fish itself. They don’t use hemlock branches or kelp to save most of the herring. Instead, they just strip them when they have not even laid the eggs. They kill herring.

The next reason we should save the herring is that the herring is a keystone creature of the food web. The whale that eats the salmon that eats the herring will die too if the herring go extinct."
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Fourth graders from Hoonah write letters urging herring protection.