In the Happy Fishing lab my classmates and I had to play the role of the head of the family (fisherman/women). We had to catch enough fish to support our family which meant paying operating costs, making a profit, and paying for our living expenses. Being the head of the family and being depended on to make money, we were expected to do our job right. We had $25 to spend but $20 was already gone because of paying for a permit, boat maintenance, and the cost of living. I bought a fishing pole for $1 and caught $35 worth of fish. In my group a person did take to many fish but that didn't make me feel bad because i already got as many fish i needed to support my family. Everyone except for two people tried to take as many as possible because they needed the fish to make money to support their family. Society does not reward those with the "most" fish. About two people sacrificed their number of fish because they were trying to tell the others to stop taking all the fish because they needed two left to mate with each other. Society does not reward the people that try and stop others from taking too many fish. My strategy changed telling myself to think of the consequences if i do something and to think before i do. It is possible to maximize the number of fish caught/person and the number of fish remaining in the pond at the same time because, you can get as many fish as you want as long as you leave some fishes to reproduce to make more fish. Some natural resources that are common resources are water, wind, air, and sun. Global commons are areas critical to life and habitation, identified as such where no person or country is allowed to "own" or otherwise control. I don't think that we are using global commons wisely because oceans are not being treated correctly, they are being polluted. To use resources more wisely they can not overuse something and keep it clean. The yellow fish disappeared faster than any other fish because it was the one that cost more when selling it. This relates to "economically valuable" species in nature and their extinction rate because animals that have just one little part of their whole body that is very valuable are being killed for one part of their body. An example of this is a rhino, they are being killed for their horns.