Ninja_Reefer
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Hi I come from the Philippines now relocated to California and I just wanted to say that dont buy wild caught specimens from the Philippines and Indonesia, as you all know Indonesia and the Philippines supply more than half of the global marine ornamental fish trade. people here are poor and the government is corrupt, they dont even care what happens to the reef, basically my nations reefs are dying out at an alarming rate and my people just dont care, they already wiped out some of the reefs at sulu(u should go there its very flat ill explain later), the ones at subic bay are at the verge of utter collapse Calamianes islands in western Philippines is under attack right now, i think the reefs in Luzon probably disappeared already, the pristine reefs of palawan probably the next target(they say they are trying to protect the reefs, but there was news that they guys assigned to protect them let in fishermen from hong kong to fish the area they where probably looking for lapu lapu(grouper) and hump headed wrasse(napoleon fish) considered delicacy in Asia.) but what kind of illegal activity??(besides previous example) do my people engage in to endanger the reefs:
1. dynamite fishing a cheap way to fish doesnt even require a net just a bottle full of explosive material throw in reef BOOM!! instant fish ready to collect at the bottom and ready for the fish market
2. when the people here are not busy collecting food by means of dynamite fishing there probably looking for fish in the reefs for the aquarium trade by means of cyanide fishing but before we go over that a brief history, Cyanide fishing began in the 1960s in the Philippines to supply the international aquarium trade. But since the early 1980s, a much bigger business has emerged: supplying live reef fish for the restaurants of Hong Kong, Singapore, and, increasingly, mainland China. Some 20,000 tonnes of live fish are eaten annually in the restaurants of Hong Kong, where rich sophisticates will pay big bucks to select a huge grouper fish in a tank and have it cooked for their table. well catching fish with is really simple all you need is crushed sodium cyanide tablets into a squeegee bottle of water, dive around a coral reef, find a fish you fancy, and squirt the toxic liquid into its face, might or not kill the fish but it will stun it so you could catch it. but what happens to the corals around the fish they all die now do this a couple of hundred of tiimes and the next day you will end up with once a reef now a barren place of death.
victims
so what is the plight of my nations reefs theyll likely to disappear in 20+ years.
BUT NOW YOU KNOW SO DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT IT!!
1. dynamite fishing a cheap way to fish doesnt even require a net just a bottle full of explosive material throw in reef BOOM!! instant fish ready to collect at the bottom and ready for the fish market
2. when the people here are not busy collecting food by means of dynamite fishing there probably looking for fish in the reefs for the aquarium trade by means of cyanide fishing but before we go over that a brief history, Cyanide fishing began in the 1960s in the Philippines to supply the international aquarium trade. But since the early 1980s, a much bigger business has emerged: supplying live reef fish for the restaurants of Hong Kong, Singapore, and, increasingly, mainland China. Some 20,000 tonnes of live fish are eaten annually in the restaurants of Hong Kong, where rich sophisticates will pay big bucks to select a huge grouper fish in a tank and have it cooked for their table. well catching fish with is really simple all you need is crushed sodium cyanide tablets into a squeegee bottle of water, dive around a coral reef, find a fish you fancy, and squirt the toxic liquid into its face, might or not kill the fish but it will stun it so you could catch it. but what happens to the corals around the fish they all die now do this a couple of hundred of tiimes and the next day you will end up with once a reef now a barren place of death.
victims
so what is the plight of my nations reefs theyll likely to disappear in 20+ years.
BUT NOW YOU KNOW SO DO SOMETHING TO PREVENT IT!!