Good morning once again to all of you pleasant peace loving people. It's a pleasure to live amongst you. Since the time Christ walked on this earth, millions of people have testified to the life - changing reality of personal relationship with Jesus.

Such experiences do not prove truth, I know, but they certainly are strong support. Have you experienced what Christ can do for you? If you haven't, then let today be the day that you bow before Jesus Christ and tell him that you believe what the bible says about him.

Take a step of faith that is base on good reason. Tell him that you believe he died to play the penalty for your sins. Accept his offer of forgiveness, turn to him as your savior and Lord, you'll be glad you did.

Let's pause for a moment.

Give me a spirit of thankfulness, Lord
For numberless blessings given, blessings that daily come to me
Like dew drops falling from heaven.

Praise to God comes naturally
When you count your blessing...

Our topic - Everyday in many Hongkong seafood restaurants customers gaze at tanks filled with live fish.

After a while they make their choices, within a few minutes their personally selected fish arrives on a platter, usually steamed or grilled. But my question is, where do they come from? In my research I found out that most of the fish on display come from the, - yes you've guessed - Philippines. Why, because many of the Hongkong gourmands say Philippine fish have the best taste.

For this reason, the live fish in restaurants is fueling the live reef fish trade in the Philippines. Recent studies have shown that large scale cyanide fishing is fast destroying the once abundant marine life and coral reefs in the tropical waters of the archipelago.

Catching live fish using cyanide is easy. You place a puck-sized lump cyanide in the bottom of a squeeze bottle, fill it with water and spray it on a coral reef, then you scoop up the gasping fish as they come rushing our of their holes. This was the explanation given by fisherman Manong Mario. My answer to this kind of fishing is, where is your pride. This is now mots tropical fish begin the journey to home aquariums throughout the world.

For years, sodium cyanide has been used to keep alive this thriving multi-billion dollar global market in ornamental fish. Yes, even that little goldfish swimming around in his bowl was caught this way.

The Philippines, I've been told, has been practicing this fishing method since the 1960s, but by 1980s, a much bigger business has emerged.

Supplying live reef fish for the restaurants of Hongkong, Singapore and now on the increase mainland China.

Just think about this, in the restaurants of Hongkong alone, some 20,000 tons of live fish are eaten annually. And what is happening here, the price in local fish markets are skyrocketing, come on fishermen, use your common sense. Feed your countrymen first. Money is what motivates these fishermen. Why, because they can sell live fish to exporters for many times the price of dead fish.

In the Philippines for instance, a fisherman will get between P300 to P1,000 for a top-priced live coral trout, five times the price of dead fish. This then makes live reef fishing very attractive, but at a price. Hundreds of tons of sodium cyanide are being pumped into the coral reefs of South East Asia . Seriously, and I mean, seriously damaging the worlds richest marine environments. All because of a little word - GREED. Coral reefs are the marine equivalent to the rainforests, and are home to large numbers of animals and plants. They are found in over 100 countries, in warm clear tropical waters. Cyanide fishing is endangering these living creatures. Marine scientists claim that cyanide kills coral polyps and algae, thus turning many coral reefs into marine deserts.

The late and highly respected French natural scientist Jacques-Yves Cousteau damned the practice as "criminal: after once visiting a coastal island in the northern Philippines. They attack the natural productive environment which allows the renewal of marine resources", he said. One of the researchers told me that they were not aware of any prosecutions or convictions in the courts for widespread cyanide fishing. It's difficult to catch them. Last word - persevere, take care. See you next week.