RE: N. rachovii Beira '98 (was On Line Listing-collecting trips)

["Brian R. Watters" <bwatters at sk_sympatico.ca>]

Tyrone Genade wrote:

>
> ...... It may
> interest people that those rachovii were collected by a Peter
> Kearny in Mozambique. They were sold to Prof. Dirk Bellstedt down
> the passage from me, who air freighted teh fish to Prof. Watters
> at his own expense. I doubt Prof. Watters made a cent from that
> exchange while Bob Morenski made several $ from selling eggs and
> fish.
>

Tyrone, this is not correct. To set the record staright, the facts are as
follows:

Peter Kearney did not collect the Beira '98 N. rachovii. They were collected
by Roger Oxland (a resident in Beira at that time) who I was put in contact
with through Peter. Roger collected the specimens specifically for me and I
paid (if I remember correctly) US$10 per pair for about 35 pairs plus a few
extra females. Dirk Bellstedt acted as an intermediary in that he initially
paid Roger on my behalf and I then reimbursed Dirk for that as well as the
airfreight. When the fish reached Cape Town they were in shocking condition
and quite a few had already died. Dirk very kindly fed them up for a couple
of weeks before air freighting them to me.

With the cost of the fish plus the airfreight, those fish probably cost me
about US$500.

I distributed a few pairs of the wild fish as part of a donation shipment to
BAKA for one of their annual meetings and retained about 20 pairs plus a few
additional females for myself as a breeding group. Subsequently, I have
distributed eggs to many individuals. Bob was one of the recipients of eggs
and perhaps also F1 fish, I forget the details.
__________________________________________
Brian R. Watters
University of Regina
Regina, Sask. S4S 0A2, Canada
Ph: (306) 584-9161 (home); (306) 585-4663 (work)
Fax: (306) 585-5433
E-mail: bwatters at sk_sympatico.ca


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