In most of the countries where fish and corals come from the people struggle to survive, they don’t worry what is happing in the world today, tomorrow, twenty years from now, they worry how they are going to feed there family today. If it isn’t on caring for the reefs and fish they can sell today to feed there family, then the reefs around the world will perish. They can’t eat coral, much less a Damsel. Teaching them to care for and protect the beautiful reefs around the world will take money and getting this money is simple raise and sell the fish/corals that grow in there backyard. At one time we aquarist where robbing the oceans of things and not replacing them, like live rock, fish and coral. Today we make rock place it in the ocean and then sell it years down the road. Coral we now frag and refrag leaving the mother colonies to reproduce in the ocean. Fish are the same, as long as we take a percentage of the juveniles and leave the parents to reproduce we will always have an abundance of fish. It is great when we can grow our own, but we have to think about the rest of the world and preserving that for a long time.
