Chris Sims
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Not to appear lazy, but it does seem the search feature doesn't work. I wonder if we have some good resources about this posted somewhere ?
And a question if I may: is there really a way to tell if our fish were caught this way ?
I have almost 20yrs experience on the commercial side and have done everything from buy wholesale, transship, and direct import BUT, I have 0 firsthand knowledge as to whether and how much of our marine fish are cyanide caught.
I've always kinda just had the mentality that "sure, many fish are", and "be diligent as a consumer (watch a fish for a few weeks before buying/introducing him to your own)", and "hey if the fish has a shorter than average lifespan, it could be from internal damage caused by cyanide fishing".
But I recently purchased a few nice angels, and 3 very nice acanthurus, all of which did exceedingly well for 4 straight weeks. And then, bam, pretty much all of them decline within a few days. This is a large tank with established fish and pristine water quality. It reminded me that there out-of-our-control factors.
This is what came up in my first google search, hardly the answers I'm looking for.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com...-saltwater-tropical-fish-cyanide-coral-reefs/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cyanide-fishing/
https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?5563/Cyanide-an-easy-but-deadly-way-to-catch-fish
And a question if I may: is there really a way to tell if our fish were caught this way ?
I have almost 20yrs experience on the commercial side and have done everything from buy wholesale, transship, and direct import BUT, I have 0 firsthand knowledge as to whether and how much of our marine fish are cyanide caught.
I've always kinda just had the mentality that "sure, many fish are", and "be diligent as a consumer (watch a fish for a few weeks before buying/introducing him to your own)", and "hey if the fish has a shorter than average lifespan, it could be from internal damage caused by cyanide fishing".
But I recently purchased a few nice angels, and 3 very nice acanthurus, all of which did exceedingly well for 4 straight weeks. And then, bam, pretty much all of them decline within a few days. This is a large tank with established fish and pristine water quality. It reminded me that there out-of-our-control factors.
This is what came up in my first google search, hardly the answers I'm looking for.
https://news.nationalgeographic.com...-saltwater-tropical-fish-cyanide-coral-reefs/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cyanide-fishing/
https://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/?5563/Cyanide-an-easy-but-deadly-way-to-catch-fish