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The name of the sea urchin was sa daam in Cantonese. Throughout the fieldtrip, while I waited for my labmates to complete the underwaterexperiment, I would ask him for the names of various marine organisms Ichanced on during my snorkeling adventures, and he always had a name forme. The corals beneath our boat were “flat-brain” corals, those in checkeredformations were “beehive” corals, and those that looked like deer hornswere “staghorn” coral. He didn’t have a scientific name to provide for meand told me the fishermen slang term for each animal instead, but it feltmore personal that way, like I was being taught a secret language.“My English is not good,” he explained. “I never finished secondary school.I only knew their names because I grew up in a fishing village—Sam MunTsai, the one our boat departed from this morning.”Sam Mun Tsai ( 三門仔 )76
The driver spoke of his childhood free-diving for scallops, and how hisadolescent self would fish underwater breathing air pumped down fromthe surface. As an adult, he made his living by being a bus driver, butoccasionally picked up boat-driving gigs in his spare time.“It’s great that you can study marine conservation and learn more aboutthe seas here,” He said in the middle of the field trip, referencing mymarine biology major, “At your age, I didn’t study hard enough to go tocollege, but it didn’t matter, because I had to work and support myfamily anyways.”Despite his lack of formal education, he knew multitudes about ourlocal seas, in stark contrast to my ignorance of Hong Kong marine life.Studying in California, I was familiar with sunburst anemones, kelpforests and sea otters, and could tell you everything about trophiccascades and ecological theories, but I knew so little about myhomeland’s waters. Why did I venture across the Pacific Ocean inpursuit of a marine biology degree without even looking in the waters inmy backyard?After that field trip, I decided to enroll in a community science volunteerprogram established by a local non-profit conservation organization.They were recruiting divers to help take photos of transects laid out overcoral reefs at a marine park. I had not SCUBA-dived in four years, but Iwas desperate to learn more about the biodiversity of Hong Kong.Before getting to dive, we had to attend a briefing session about thecorals of our city.“Hong Kong has 84 coral species within our tiny territory, which is morethan that of the entire Carribean Sea,” The lecturer said. “However, HongKong waters are a stressful environment for corals to live in.”Located at the edge of the tropics, Hong Kong waters become a littlechilly for corals. Aside from low temperatures, the destruction of coastalhabitats by overfishing, dredging, reclamation and sewage dischargewiped out 80% of the corals in Hong Kong’s Tolo Channel in the 1980s.I sighed. This sounded more like the Hong Kong I was familiar with.Even though the field site I visited with my internship was quite pristine,my city was imprinted in my brain as a land of contaminants. Iremember the countless times where I would walk by the harbour wheresmall fishing boats and yachts mingled over the glistening, filmyseawater, and smell the most curious odor of fish mixed with gasoline. Irecalled hiking up to a viewpoint over a secluded beach, and seeing thesand absolutely obscured by plastic trash with labels ranging fromMandarin, Vietnamese, and Cantonese.77
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