Artilce in the NYT about reef collection for home tanks

[davidm]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/science/23aquarium.html?pagewanted=1&hpw

[L8 2 RISE]

Honestly, I feel like this article is just saying what everyone in the hobby has in the back of their head, but the problem is that the general public who reads this article will walk away from it thinking that the reef aquarium hobby is going to "destroy the oceans!"

 

What highlights the article is really this:

[Noobalicious]

i agree...alot of hype but no substance

[Jan]

Interesting article with several issues and views to consider. The bottom line is be responsible in all areas of reefing. Isn't that what is going on in the industry with regulating certain corals and identifying the need to put a cap on what we take from the ocean? Isn't that what Australia is doing when they decide to stop exporting corals for a while? Interesting how the article doen't mention how in Thailand and other parts of the world there organizations that are rebuilding the reef and only farming frags from what they grow.

[gmubeach]

Its like everything else fisheries equal survival pressure just like blue crabs in our area...the question is how to moniter the stuff going out we can all do our part by keeping stuff alive in our tanks and by captive breeding/fragging

[zygote2k]

This is a good article and tells how there could be a population problem concerning the animals that we collect for our tanks. These are the CUC that every LFS markets as the way to clean your tank. As marketing dictates, they must sell more than we actually need resulting in high mortality rates and increased demand which in turn harms the natural population.

Maybe if someone were to breed Turbos and Blue-legs, then we can lessen our wild caught amounts.

[sen5241b]

May I offer a simple rule on ethics and keeping a "green" tank: Take nothing from the Ocean unless it is plentiful.