Marinations 28 Frank Quan Interview
First cable cast on Marin 26 Septermber 15, 2011
This video is unavailable at the moment as the State Park system has ordered it's removal due to a free speech issue. Until it is resolved, we removed the video since we have no funding to contest this order in court. Since this video was produced as an act of free speech by an individual with no commercial or other institutional support in support of the State Park system receiving continued funding, it is hard to understand their arbitrary order to remove the video from this little blog.
We thought that the interview with Frank Quan not only told an important story about the State Park and California History, but also brought out important information about the declining health of the San Francisco Bay estuary and it's fishery.
We hope to allow Frank to tell his story here in the future.
In the mean time, scientific information about the estuary and it's challenges due to continued climate heating can be found in this journal article:
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024465
This article takes a lot of words to say what Frank Quan told in his short interview, but they are both in alignment with the facts about salinity, turbidity and the changes to the life in the ecosystem.
This video is unavailable at the moment as the State Park system has ordered it's removal due to a free speech issue. Until it is resolved, we removed the video since we have no funding to contest this order in court. Since this video was produced as an act of free speech by an individual with no commercial or other institutional support in support of the State Park system receiving continued funding, it is hard to understand their arbitrary order to remove the video from this little blog.
We thought that the interview with Frank Quan not only told an important story about the State Park and California History, but also brought out important information about the declining health of the San Francisco Bay estuary and it's fishery.
We hope to allow Frank to tell his story here in the future.
In the mean time, scientific information about the estuary and it's challenges due to continued climate heating can be found in this journal article:
Projected Evolution of California's San Francisco Bay-Delta-River System in a Century of Climate Change
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024465
This article takes a lot of words to say what Frank Quan told in his short interview, but they are both in alignment with the facts about salinity, turbidity and the changes to the life in the ecosystem.
Marinations goes to China Camp to interview Frank Quan, the last in a line of Chinese Americans who fished for Shrimp in the San Pablo Bay (North of San Francisco) as he tells of the history of this small village, and the decline in the health of the ecosystem. This unique California State Park is threatened by budget cuts, but one of the greatest treasures isn't the land, it is Frank Quan. His family still runs the little store, and he still takes out the fishing boat though the fishery is depleted.
