Hawaii fish ban
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NewSaltWaterGuy
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Articles about this for others:
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07...-aquarium-fish-trade-governor-has-other-ideas
https://reefbuilders.com/2017/09/07/aquarium-fish-collecting-halted-by-courts-in-hawaii/
"The courts are dissatisfied with the DLNR’s approval process and especially that there are no limits on the number of collecting permits that can be issued. In a vacuum this is a reasonable claim to make but while we – the aquarium hobby – is estimated to be taking between 500,000 and one million fish per year, let’s just do some quick math and compare this to commercial fishing.
If we take the median estimate of 750,000 ornamentals being collected annually, this works out to around 2,000 fish per day, or around 680 for the three islands where aquarium fish collecting is permitted. We’re talking about small to medium sized fish who are all very low on the food chain, wrasses, small tangs, angels and anthias.
Meanwhile, a cursory look on Trip Advisor lists over 90 boat charter companies on Oahu and Kona alone, how many fish do you think they’re catching per day? It’s probably nowhere near 2000 fish per day. But let’s be very conservative here, it could easily be 500 pounds of fish per boat, every. Single, DAY! And these are top level predators, tunas, skipjacks, mahi, marlin, and other long lived fish which are under much more fishing pressure than any puny yellow tang or bicolor anthias could ever be. "
Just from this article, I have only read the 2 links...
I think this is dumb, now as I said I have JUST read these two articles so I'm going by that..
Commercial fisheries and collecting takes more than us period, and that's obvious no need to sugar coat that I'mo... And the average hobbyist isn't near as popular as commercial fisherman...
just doesn't add up.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07...-aquarium-fish-trade-governor-has-other-ideas
https://reefbuilders.com/2017/09/07/aquarium-fish-collecting-halted-by-courts-in-hawaii/
"The courts are dissatisfied with the DLNR’s approval process and especially that there are no limits on the number of collecting permits that can be issued. In a vacuum this is a reasonable claim to make but while we – the aquarium hobby – is estimated to be taking between 500,000 and one million fish per year, let’s just do some quick math and compare this to commercial fishing.
If we take the median estimate of 750,000 ornamentals being collected annually, this works out to around 2,000 fish per day, or around 680 for the three islands where aquarium fish collecting is permitted. We’re talking about small to medium sized fish who are all very low on the food chain, wrasses, small tangs, angels and anthias.
Meanwhile, a cursory look on Trip Advisor lists over 90 boat charter companies on Oahu and Kona alone, how many fish do you think they’re catching per day? It’s probably nowhere near 2000 fish per day. But let’s be very conservative here, it could easily be 500 pounds of fish per boat, every. Single, DAY! And these are top level predators, tunas, skipjacks, mahi, marlin, and other long lived fish which are under much more fishing pressure than any puny yellow tang or bicolor anthias could ever be. "
Just from this article, I have only read the 2 links...
I think this is dumb, now as I said I have JUST read these two articles so I'm going by that..
Commercial fisheries and collecting takes more than us period, and that's obvious no need to sugar coat that I'mo... And the average hobbyist isn't near as popular as commercial fisherman...
just doesn't add up.
I think an increase in breeding in-house is a massive plus.
The first blue tangs were bred in captivity last year, hopefully we can keep the trend going. I think captive bred fish just survive much better.
That being said I'm well aware that I have wild caught fish in my tank.
tdileo
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Or, that the lionfish route, release them yellow tangs in florida waters.
Of course you're joking but honestly this wouldn't even be that awful, they are much less destructive lol!
ChiCity
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plus trumpito folks have already destroyed florida’s reefs, so I don’t see how these tangs would do any harm...
They’d probably clean up all the algae growing on dead elks and stags, lol
