Kiribati consist of 33 tiny coral islands scattered around the wide biggest Ocean in the world, Pacific Ocean. Kiribati is an island known for it's fragile environment and the current issue of Climate Change and it's impact on the island and the people including erosion and salty water. As a result, most places in Kiribati is experiencing water salinity. Undrinkable water is common throughout the villages. Salty water cause more pressure on the life of people. The soil condition in most of the islands is poor and does not support plant to grow well. Our survival from the land is almost impossible. Therefore the sea and the ocean become our only means of survival. For many years, I-Kiribati used the ocean and the sea as their garden and the source of food. The people survival depend heavily in the ocean and the sea. For I-Kiribati we culturally attached and value the sea and the ocean. It is our home, our road, our destination and even our big garden where we get our food from. We are so grateful to our ancestors and elders ( Unimwane) for their tradition fishing skills and the tradition knowledge of making canoe. These knowledge and skill have been passed on from one generation to another. Each generation in Kiribati especially man own a special skills in fishing. So as our token of appreciation to our ancestors and elders. The art of singing and dance are traditionally perform to express how much grateful and the joy we have as we continue to survive from the sea. In the clip you will hear a local song play in our vernacular language ( E aera nee nee koaki ongongo Tamana, e aera nao nao koaki ongongo Arorae ......) this song is challenging anyone in Kiribati about fishing, no one can compare the joy and the excitement of a fisherman from the island of Tamana and Arorae as he continues to catches plenty fish. There is no one can beat him, none can beat him. Meet these local and skillful fishermen from the island of Tamana, in the Southern part of the Republic of Kiribati in the South Pacific.
