Vanuatu - Tropical Aquarium Fish Harvest (pt 3)

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Vanuatu is a haven for snorkelling, reef and wreck diving, and sport fishing.

Since the success of the film 'Finding Nemo', demand for tropical fish has soared. But the seas of the Pacific are literally being emptied to feed this frenzy.

Tropical fish are now virtually worth their weight in gold. "Everybody wants one because of this Nemo film," explains SRS Manager Larry Dacles. His company has a monopoly on tropical fishing in Vanuatu, home to some of most popular tropical fish in the world. SRS has alienated local tourism operators, who depend on the tropical fish as an attraction, and the traditional owners of the reefs, and scientists who are fearing an ecological disaster in the making. "They take anything and everything," complains one local. "It's out of control." Already there has been a 50% fall in tropical fish from the reefs. Now, it's not so much a case of finding Nemo as saving him.


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[rkon1000]

i got fresh water tropical fish

[8reef81]

Cain Sugar and Pineapples, good luck regulating that furtilizer and pesticide use, I guess we are an easier target.

[8reef81]

Mauidems, open your eyes and broaden your mind. It "all" needs regulation. Whats your biggest export?

[8reef81]

Mauidems does not care what foreign life forms expel from the bilge tanks of ships in the harbors, the nitrogen fertilizers and pesticides and chemicals that wash down from the cain and pineapple fields into the Sea. "Just the aquarium trade".

[8reef81]

Animal neglect in any form carries heavy fines or even jail time. If a pallet of live animals where left in the sun. And the animals expired that is neglect, fine them or jail them. The authorities will take care of it...now lets fix the polution issue.

[8reef81]

We prefer acredited media to photoshop, coverage of such an animal crulety violation would exist in local media, articles would have been written?

[8reef81]

They do not use limestone they use arragonite essentially it is prehistorc dead coral heads. It is also mined inland in quarries in Fiji. LR is to valuable to grind up.

[8reef81]

Well I'm done, I don't mind talking Marine biology with someone who understands it. I've spent years learning what it takes to keep animals alive and healthy in captivity. Stop fishing all together in Hawaii, your reefs will still die, your $4.7 million a year to the $15 Billion a year aquarium industry won't matter anyway.

[MauiDems]

@8reef81

Photo and description of killed aquarium collector's yellow tang is here:

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[8reef81]

Look at a healthy reef in Fiji, then at your own. Tourisum damage, neglect, whatever.

If I were a reef fish in Hawaii I would leave too. Your water clarity is poor from to many nutirents, coral simply cannot survive this.