Full Program Link (25 minutes) www.youtube.com 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….
Where do you think they get the rock to make the cement for aquaculture rock? Thats right, they grind up limestone from the reef, aka live rock, then process it all to make aquaculture rock. Brilliant!
Please – having a salt water aquarium is a crime against the ocean.
In Hawai’i an estimated 5-10 MILLION fish are taken each year – almost all of them die within a few weeks because they cannot live without the reef.
And the reef cannot live without the fish.
Please – salt water aquariums are in the same category as people who buy rhino horns.
Fucking hippies !!
Fucking hippies !!!
MauiDems, your a moron, you have no clue what your talking about, I’ve been to Fiji, Hawaii is no comparison. My Hawian Yellow Tang has been alive in my “Reef” tank for Four years now and will most likely die of old age, well fed and happy.
I fiji they use dead coral for gravel, tones of it is used. Also 30% of the tropical SW aquarium Fish market is aquacultured in the States alone. My club aquacultures hundreds of corals and shares them with each other.
I rarely EVER purchase maricultured or wild coral myself. Educate your self before you proclaim to be some sort of “Earth child”, if you want to help the reefs, polution and burning fossile fuels is the single largest threat to the reefs, NOT the hobbiest.
We will have coral in our tanks long after the people of the world distroy the oceans, We will be the only “human” interaction capable of reintroducing a species of coral that has died out of existance due to polution and global warming. Again educate yourself before you open your mouth.
@8reef81 You seem to be extremely naive about the actual ocean not the little teeny tiny piece of it you have in your living room.
Bottom line: Hawai’i cannot support taking 5 million reef fish every year. We are already seeing a huge decline in the fish populations.
And if all you can do is swear and call names rather than rebut using logic and facts, that does not say much for your position, character or intellect.
You should support the removal of the Roi or Peacock grouper whom is devistating your reef fish populations. Not the fish collectors whom ARE obaying the law and harvesting fish either for the Aquarium industry or for food. Listen to your own scientist and biologists, you are wrong again. Get your facts straight before attacking our industry. Is that civil enough for you.
@8reef81 Yeah right.
Like the aquarium harvester who left the yellow tangs to die in the sun on the Big Island…so many that they COVERED AN ENTIRE PARKING LOT.
We do support fishing tournaments to eliminate the invasive Talapia — I’m assuming that is what you are talking about since I don’t know the mainland name for this fish.
Please show us a link of this parking lot full of fish?
Your actual harvest 90,000 harvested in 1973 to 422,823 in 1995.
Where do you get your data?
Talapia are a freshwater Cichlid species and have nothing to do with Hawaii.
Try searching ROI or Peacock Grouper on google, not Talapia?
Your reefs are dying… you can place blame on everyone around you. If you target the fisheries, then target the chemical and furtilizer companies, the cruze ships dumping trash into your waters and on and on.
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.
@8reef81
Photo and description of killed aquarium collector’s yellow tang is here:
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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.
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.
We prefer acredited media to photoshop, coverage of such an animal crulety violation would exist in local media, articles would have been written?
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.
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”.
Mauidems, open your eyes and broaden your mind. It “all” needs regulation. Whats your biggest export?
Cain Sugar and Pineapples, good luck regulating that furtilizer and pesticide use, I guess we are an easier target.