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![]() It is a mistake to say that the problems are created by the environment and to blame others.
The fish/coral industry is a problem and a serious one because they ignore the problem. There are many examples including importing fish and coral that has no reasonable chance of success. We should not be bringing in any wild fish or coral where aquacultured are available. The mining of live rock must also stop. If we ignore the problem we will be left with trading brown frags amongst eachother. If the species on the list are deemed threatened we as hobbyists should be the first to fully support the legislation!! |
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The point of this is for the Center for Biological Diversity to make some statement about global warming. It has nothing to do with the conservation of truly threatened coral species. |
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![]() If they make corals not only illegal to sell but even illegal to own there will a considerable drop in this hobby. I have never seen a wild coral in real life that wasn't on a tv. Seeing it on tv was cool but nothing beats growing and building a reef in your living room. Being able to see them in the stores and going to other people's tanks is what got me into this mess and now if you asked me to help with the ocean I might actually get off the couch and do something. Before it was just an image on the tv. They will do more damage doing this instead of maybe tightening down on coral harvesting and increasing enforcement on those rules. I can not disagree that it's people to blame, wether its harvesting, pollution or climate change ( not so much the last one but that's another argument ) maybe some of them emission credits all them big businesses are buying to pollute above current EPA standards should go to someone who can help nature a bit. I know people say we're supposed to let nature take its course but well we already got our hands in there so we may as well do something good. Just my .02
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![]() +1 not to mention all the dead rotting life that will be in the landfills. fine, ban harvesting and importation! Dont make us kill or otherwise dispose of cultured corals we have nursed and cared for.
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![]() Not to mention that there is no such thing as maricultured or captive bred without sometimes decades of trial and error with wild caught specimens.
I've been reading the Centre for Biodiversity's website for the last little bit. By and large I agree with what they're trying to do, but they keep attempting to use the US Endangered Species Act as a way of 'protecting' marine species (most of which live thousands of miles from US waters) from global warming. That's not science, that's a political tool. Legislation can't protect an animal from an environment that is on a trajectory away from what it's adapted to, and listing something endangered due to climate change is not going to stop climate change. They're petitioning to have True Percula clownfish added to the ESA, and since there are no true percula clownfish in the US (or anywhere that any US regulatory/conservation authority has any jurisdiction to do anything), the only thing that would do would make owning and breeding your tank raised clownfish illegal. It's like trying to play piano with a sledgehammer. |
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Regarding the True Percula clownfish... it would also ban import of the fish into the USA, and therefore eliminate the clownfishes largest market in the world, which presumably would reduce demand and collection. I completely agree that eliminating clownfish breeding in the US would be pointless, but I view it as a necessary sacrifice in order to achieve effective and timely protection for the species. On a side note (not in response to you Asylumdown), I also just wanted to say that instead of the logic that MASNA is using: "There is insufficient data on this species, therefore we are against its protection in the ESA" To me it makes more sense to say: "There is insufficient data on this species, therefore we are against its wild collection until the species is better studied" Unfortunately, I'm doubtful you would ever hear MASNA say that. |