Word: idechong
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Fifty feet below the surface of Ulong Channel off the coast of Palau, Noah Idechong points excitedly at a large fish lurking under a fan coral. It is a brown marbled grouper, quite rare, but a favorite of Chinese restaurants around Asia. It looks back at him warily, not knowing that Idechong is a main reason the fish and many other marine creatures are still alive on Palau's reefs instead of stir-fried on restaurant plates in Hong Kong...
...That big grouper under the coral," says Idechong, 47, after he has heaved himself back onto the boat. "If there was still fishing in this area, you would never have seen him--he would have taken off immediately...