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From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: alt.aquaria
Subject: Re: breeding marine fish
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Date: 5 May 88 13:16:48 GMT
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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.

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