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Subject: Re: NANFA-- Sales of native fishes for ornamental
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On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, robert a rice wrote:
Just a couple of trivial comments.
> I had hoped my little blurb would not only give me some customer feedback
> but initiate a discussion on the merits of selling fish as ornamentals.
Like most things it has good and bad aspects. At low frequency it is
probably good if the fish are spread to responsible people who document
their experiences with the fish, hence furthering our basic knowledge and
providing information that can be useful in their conservation. At
higher frequencies it tends to turn the other way, the benefits are still
there, and may be increased, but negative points start to emerge such as
fish being hybridised or translocated etc etc by ignorant or malicious
individuals.
> They will have no emotional responses to a fish they
> do not know so any kind of exposure for most none game fishies is good
> exposure
I would have to broadly agree with this.
> Yes of course native fish have been sold
> for years as sport/bait species and those species have benifited with
> financial resources heading their way.
Does anyone have any examples of bait fish that have benefited because
they were bait fish? I know plenty of fish that have suffered as a result
of introduced bait fish the western USA. Certainly the game fish to some
extent has benefited, although trying to find "pure" original populations
of some game fish is getting more difficult due to widespread poorly
thought out sport fish stockings. Is this an improvement? On the other
hand some game fish have benefited, ie native trouts.
So, what does it all mean? Buggered if I know, except that unless we
educate people as to the dangers of keeping fish, and their
responsibilities towards the environment, the native fish we all cherish
are screwed eventually. Hence part of the reason for NANFA coming up with a
mission statement / ethics statement. This is not to say that
fishkeepers are not the only ones responsible for the decline of native
fish, they most certainly are not. But the potential is there to
contribute to this impact. Of course, this has nothing to do with the
rights or wrongs of selling native fish, but then again I'm not well
known for sticking to a topic anyway. :-)
Tootles
Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu_edu
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