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RE: Species Maintenance
Unfortunately, that has been tried in the past under the auspicies of the
Species Maintenance Committee <smiles> but it did not work very well.
Currently, however, the A.K.A. has the Killie Conservation Committee which
selects species or groups of fish to work with. There are several separate
groups within the the KCC that are working with fish.
One of the problems is there are 800 species of killies and numerous
populations of most. This simply means we are talking about over 3,000
separate populations and only about 800 A.K.A. members. Kind of hard to
set it up! <smile>
The current SMC is designed to attempt to oversee the status of killies in
the hobby, make periodic and/or emergency reports on the status of fish and
attempt to provide a central source to distribute endangered species to
accomplished breeders. <No flames on this please - it is my opinion that
to save a species sometimes people just have to accept decisions of this
nature>
I wish your concept would work, but unfortunately it would almost require
the American Killifish Association to become focused only on Maintenance
and <happily> this is a hobby, not a business.
Tom
At Thursday 08:36 AM 4/19/01, you wrote:
>I hesitate to make this suggestion since I am not very
>informed about the way this organization works, but it
>seems that many members do not take maintenance of
>rare species "seriously". I do not mean anything bad
>by that. I just think that there are hobbyists who
>just enjoy breeding fish. Why not form a study group
>or something similar to what the ACA does that focuses
>on maintenance. A requirement for membership would be
>that a) you are an AKA member and b) you disclose what
>species you work with. This group could then "meet" or
>organize in such a fashion as to decide what they
>think needs focus. When the group grows they will
>become a source of fish that everyone wants. Then in
>order to be in on all the great opportunity more
>members would be "incented" (is that a word?) to
>participate in census type activities. Members of the
>group could make it a "mission" to note where they
>find certain fish, or what they see in auctions or
>swaps. Please no flames, I am just brainstorming
>possibilities to help.
>
>Scott
>
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