Fun & Games

A few weeks ago a group of EDF’ers and I headed to the California Academy of Science’s Nightlife. The Cal Academy, if you haven’t been there, is that cool building in Golden Gate Park with a living roof. Each Thursday night they stay open late for the 21+ crowd. A D.J. spins some tunes, bars are arranged around the exhibits and a selected theme is celebrated. We attended the Cal Academy’s Sustainable Seafood evening with the purpose of hosting a game that the EDF Catch Share Design Center developed.

The game, Go Fish, No Fish, uses chopsticks (rod & reel), toy shovels (trawl net) and little plastic fish to illustrate how traditional fisheries management frequently fails the ocean and fishermen. Nightlife participants were invited to play a 5 minute game of Go Fish, No Fish. My role was to facilitate the game to ensure that it was fun yet instructive. This task meant retaining the attention of the participants, despite the DJ’s tunes, abundance of mixed drinks and promise of free oyster samples just 10 yards away. Game players quickly engaged in “fishing” for the plastic fan-tailed goldfish. They learned that shortening the fishing season caused a race for fish (imagine a group of adults racing to “catch” plastic goldfish with chop sticks!). The last fishing round illustrated how catch shares encourage fishermen to fish safely, get involved in protecting fish stocks and increase profits. The game players were surprisingly engaged and interested in issues of fisheries management. Nice job, San Francisco residents!

After my shift of facilitating Go Fish, No Fish I explored the Cal Academy’s reptile collection and aquarium, caught the sunset from the living roof and watched a show in the Planetarium. Unfortunately, the oysters were gone by the time I got there.

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