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Re: Species Maintenance
I suspect that places like aquabid will do a fair bit to increase
membership as killies get a higher profile around the community. I'm in
the process of creating an email AKA membership roster, and my initial
findings are that around 80% of members have emails, in case anyone
cares....
Doug
>about 800 A.K.A. members. There use to be over1200 maybe we need a
>membership conservation committee???
>----- Original Message -----
>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
>
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>> 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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