Path: utzoo!hoptoad!mejac!decwrl!labrea!eos!ames!nrl-cmf!mailrus!husc6!yale!Ram-Ashwin From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) Newsgroups: alt.aquaria Subject: Re: breeding marine fish Message-ID: <28503@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 5 May 88 13:16:48 GMT References: <3021@leo.UUCP> <5305@ihlpg.ATT.COM> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram) Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 In-reply-to: dalka@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Ken Dalka) In article <5305@ihlpg.ATT.COM>, dalka@ihlpg (Ken Dalka) writes: > Ive been told by a local pet shop that ALL marine fish are still caught > in the wild. This couldn't be doing much good for the survival of these species or the ecological balance of our planet (so what else is new?). When you consider that some species (most African cichlids, to take a freshwater example) are endemic to one small region of the earth (often a single lake), and there can't be that many of them, it's a shame that they are caught and imported in such large numbers rather than bred. Of course, one still needs to catch some to breed initially, but this should be restricted to a few licensed biologists or ichthyologists. -- Ashwin. ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu UUCP: {decvax,ucbvax,harvard,cmcl2,...}!yale!Ram-Ashwin BITNET: Ram@yalecs