GoKawiilConnor’s father, Rodney Green, is already down at the harbor. Today is a fishing day, and there won’t be enough space on the quay to launch the Jasus Tristani — one of the two rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) operated by Tristan’s Fisheries Department — until all the lobster fishing boats head out to sea. Green is anxious to get going. They’ve got 200 lobsters to tag. It’s going to be a long day.
In her kitchen, Connor’s mother, Sarah Glass-Green, is rushing to finish a stack of freshly made ham and cheese sandwiches that she needs to bring to her husband before he leaves. Connor’s older brother, Kieran Glass, 19, is also at the harbor, waiting for the lobster fishing boats to clear before he can board the Conservation Department’s RIB to go and tag blue sharks near Inaccessible Island.
Glass-Green would rather be out on the water with her husband, but instead, she’ll spend the day in the Fisheries Department’s container laboratory, measuring and dissecting four telescopefish — caught at Gough Island as part of scientific research into deep-sea species in Tristan da Cunha’s waters — to send to Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom.