Re: our impact

I agree, Mislav. I've heard that you can eat Tang in Hawaii.. I can't believe it. And I watched a fascinating nature show about seahorses a few years ago, and how Asian countries were harvesting these, drying them out and selling them as cures for anything or to be use for sexual potentcy. It has gotten so bad that some areas are now patrolled to keep poachers away just so the sea horse population can recover in small sections that are off-limits.

I've also seen shows where thousands of crabs were killed (to eat I assume) and the shells were piled high in the front yards of homes. It was surreal, and hard to grasp mentally.

Our hobby and the industry that supports it is not the reason the coral reefs are declining.

Marc


Mislav wrote: 
Incidentally, the tank raised angle sounds good to me.  I can remain
in the hobby with only a fraction of the guilt.  Are there any facts
out there on reef depletion?  I'm a scuba diver (occasionally), and if
you read the scuba magazines, many of the world's reefs that were
teeming with fish 15 years ago are pretty barren now, due mostly to
the aquarium trade.  I wonder how much of this is true and how much is
propaganda.



I seriously doubt that the reason of barren reefs is due to the aquarium trade. If those fish there are cought by net, without cyanide it can not seriously endanger fish population. The number of fish caught for aquarim trade is insignificant compared to tons of fish caught for consumation every day. The local people there eat fish that we keep in aquariums.
The problems are elswere, primairly IMO in local polution that pushes the reefs away from populated areas.
Did anyone see the markets in Japan and Honk-Kong? They have pufferfish, mantis shrimps, moray eals, tangs... all ment for consumation.
Local comunities that export fish for aquarium trade should take care in minimizing polution and try everything that coral reefs remain beautyfoul and attractive.

Mislav 



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