Re: One Compeling Reason for Collecting

[Tricia M <tishykb at yahoo_com>]

Hello,

I must say i haven't read many of the emails in this
discussion, as this summer i've found little time for
email lists (unfortunately :( ) but i'd like to reply
to this email as it pertains to really this email
alone. 

Fish collecting trips, in my eyes, can be completely
priceless. I look forward to the days where i can go
on my own. If people stopped collecting fish, where
would we be today in terms of our hobby, and in terms
of scientific progress? There are hundreds of books
with volumes of information on different species in
the world. If we stop collecting, and i don't mean
killifish exculsively, we won't be able to learn. What
if no one could come up with a compelling reason to
figure out the structure of DNA? Or to put bacteria on
a moldy pizza? Did these people have much more of a
compelling reason than to learn, to see, to discover,
to further explore? The chances of a casual fish
collecter discovering new species of fish on these
collecting trips may not be the best in the world,
however i'm sure it can, and does happen. Not everyone
who has discovered something life shattering had a
Ph.D in their field. Not everyone who writes a New
York Times Best Seller has a Ph.D in English. 

If we stop collecting, we stop learning. What is life
without moving forward? 

--Tricia
Johnstown, PA, USA. 


--- RuevenM at aol_com wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
>    My stance is not based on whether or not anyone
> is "worthy" to go 
> collecting. I am not thinking about individuals at
> all and do not think this is a 
> debate about individuals. I am thinking about the
> overall concept and ESPECIALLY 
> what real NEED there is for such a trip. I do not
> think this is a "stay out of 
> my sandbox" issue at all and I certainly don't think
> Brian is worried about 
> people playing in his Eastern African sandbox --
> unless you're a certain German 
> who shall remain nameless :-). I am waiting for the
> supporters of this idea to 
> come up with ONE, just ONE compeling reason WHY a
> collecting trip is needed 
> and necessary. Saying we can do it and it would be
> fun to do it and we might 
> get fish from it and we want to do it OR NOT
> compeling reasons to DO it -- they 
> are wishes and justifications. There are many many
> compeling reasons NOT to do 
> such trips. What is one compeling reason to do them?
> If the yeah-sayers 
> cannot come up with one indisputible reason for
> doing these trips then I think that 
> pretty much cuts the legs out from under the idea.
> 
> Bobby
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