This will always be a problem when safety concerns run contrary to profitability. Even in Hawaii where you'd think we'd know better, many divers have been killed or crippled from risky diving.
You can't blame it on the consumer, though. Nobody knows where all of their products come from, and workers die every day producing all sorts of goods that are more commonplace than aquarium fish. Unscrupulous employers are a fact of life in most parts of the world.
Steve, do you know how much the divers are paid for their ventralis? I don't usually even bother to collect longfin anthias, because the cheap ventralis from everywhere else drive down the value. Never mind that their survival rate is horrible.
You can't blame it on the consumer, though. Nobody knows where all of their products come from, and workers die every day producing all sorts of goods that are more commonplace than aquarium fish. Unscrupulous employers are a fact of life in most parts of the world.
Steve, do you know how much the divers are paid for their ventralis? I don't usually even bother to collect longfin anthias, because the cheap ventralis from everywhere else drive down the value. Never mind that their survival rate is horrible.
