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Re: Species Maintenance
about 800 A.K.A. members. There use to be over1200 maybe we need a
membership conservation committee???
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From: "Tom Grady" <tgrady at twcny_rr.com>
To: <killietalk at AKA_Org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 9:31 AM
Subject: 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 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
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> 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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