That’s right: every week we are going to celebrate some small holiday! We want you to join us in celebrating every week – because really, everyone needs a little more happiness in their lives.

Join us in celebrating the holiday just yourself, and take some small quiet time to enjoy it. Or, take our book and program ideas, and celebrate in a larger way in your library. Take a small, goofy opportunity to have a little more fun today! (We celebrate you in doing this!)

The point to this day is a great one: encouraging people to be more thoughtful about sustainability in fishing and the fish we eat. As someone who really enjoys fish, and eats a lot of it, I do try to pay attention to the packages of the fish I buy and to browse the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch program website. “From small family-run shrimp farms in Vietnam to large tuna fishing fleets off the Atlantic coast, every seafood product has a story to tell. Knowing the details of how and where your seafood is harvested is key to protecting our ocean and ensuring a long-term supply of seafood.”

So this week may not be so ha-ha funny, but it gives all of us a chance to do make some good decisions for the environment! Sure: my tuna packet purchases are not going to change the industry; but if you also choose tuna packets that are from sustainable sources, and so do the people you know, and the people they know? Heck, now it’s a movement. And it’s making a difference. We can all feel good about doing some good things!

And if you want to draw more attention to this issue, and to get your patron involved so more people can know about making good choices, set up some displays! Let kids draw pictures of fish and do some crafting of different fish! Distribute recipes of the tastiest, sustainable, fish! Hand out plastic fish to everyone who comes to the library today! Have fishy fun!

Here are a few books you might want to check out:

• The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier, by Ian Urbina
• Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life, by Lulu Miller
• Foolproof Fish: Modern Recipes for Everyone, Everywhere, by America’s Test Kitchen
• Fallen Out: A Jesse McDermitt Novel (Caribbean Adventure Series Book 1), by Wayne Stinnett
• Fish!: A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results, by Stephen C. Lundin PhD, etc.

Join us in celebrating the holiday just yourself, and take some small quiet time to enjoy it. Or, take our book and program ideas, and celebrate in a larger way in your library. Take a small, goofy opportunity to have a little more fun today!