Elias memorable moment - Fiji Times Online
Wednesday, June 11, 2008 ALUMECI NAKEKE Elia (right) with CORAL 's Heidi Williams after receiving snorkelling equipment Elia Gasaiwai still reminisces about the days when men and women from his village would go to the reef in front of the village and return with their catch in just a few hours. They would return from fishing every day with enough for the whole family and there was not a day they would come back home empty-handed. He is now 64-years-old and said those were the good old days when everything was in abundance, especially fish. They never used fishing lines but women would go out to the reefs with their small nets and the men with their spears. The spears were often made of a long thin bamboo stick with several sharp, short iron rods tied with a wire at one end. "It was also fun to go with other boys and look for fish. When we see a school of fish gathered we would take a stone and throw it towards them and they would swim towards their own fish holes wher...