Re: [Killietalk] Commercial imports; what to label them?

["David Lains" <david at zfin_org>]

Hi John

I would argue that many cichlids have locations and well not guppies but
species livebearers have both collection codes and locations.

It's true we'll likely never return fish to the wild but at least we can try
to maintain distinct populations.

Best Fishes
David  

-----Original Message-----
From: killietalk-bounces at aka_org [mailto:killietalk-bounces at aka_org] On
Behalf Of John Jabba
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:06 AM
To: killietalk at aka_org
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Commercial imports; what to label them?

HI;
   I have been following the series of posts on collection codes and I am
trying to understand the logic about maintaining them.  To my way of
thinking, after a given species has been kept and bred in your fishroom for
a couple of generations the collection code is no longer valid for this
particular pair and its offspring should take on a code relating to your
fishroom. After all its native biotope is now that of a location in your
house.

I wouldn't think that there is ever any likelihood of ever taking any
species back to the original collecting point to possibly repopulate it. I
have kept and bred many different fish over the years; Angels, Guppies,
Barbs, Cichlids, Discus, etc etc,and I don't see this kind of concentration
on a code relating to an original collecting point for these fish so why is
it done for my new love, Killifish.

John J

Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 16:34:21 -0400
From: "Ken" 
Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Commercial imports; what to label them?
To: "'killifish discussion list'" 

I'm not t all against codes or labeling, as anyone who has received my fish
or visited my home can testify; when it comes to labeling and "isolation",
I'm either paranoid, schitzo, or both :-) (fancy/detailed labels are my
thing!)

...anyway, the whole point of codes/labeling is genetic
integrity/identification...my crystal ball tells me; once it becomes
cheap/easy to do; labeling per DNA/genetic "Code" in some manner is the
logical way to go...all else is really moot (if indeed genetic purity is the
only reason for comprehensive labeling)  

Goals: understood we all got individual goals, but gotta admit there is some
hobby centric peer pressure & defacto unwritten/written codes of ethics
we/most follow...and those "rules" are indeed centered around some kind of
less visible goal(s),(or the behaviors these rules govern are near
pointless)...

My thoughts were: w/o a clear understanding of exactly what we are trying to
accomplish through using codes & standards, any implementation thereto is
relatively inefficient/meaningless unless the effort is concerted, widely
practiced and understood what it is we are supposed to accomplish 
..Basically, other that I.D and therefore "dollar value", I'm not really
certain

....pardon the slight soapbox journey there ;-)

KC



 
       
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