NOAA Proposes Listing 66 Reef-building Coral Species under the Endangered Species Act

[swffan]

Interesting read:

 

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/11/82corals.html

 

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/stories/2012/11/docs/signed_coral_proposed_rule.pdf

[firecrackerbob]

hmmm.. I just scanned through, but looking up some of the species, it seems like many of them are pretty popular in the hobby... Im sort of waiting for environmentalists to shut down this hobby... time will tell I guess...

[MBVette]

At this point a lot of these corals can be grown in tanks and there is not as much need for us to continually harvest from the reefs.

 

In my mind we need to keep moving to a point where we are taking very little out of the ocean and more from fish and corals bred in captivity.

[firecrackerbob]

At this point a lot of these corals can be grown in tanks and there is not as much need for us to continually harvest from the reefs.

 

In my mind we need to keep moving to a point where we are taking very little out of the ocean and more from fish and corals bred in captivity.

 

 

Agreed, but wouldnt putting them on the endangered species list make it illegal to even posses these species?

[MBVette]

Didn't think about that. But arnt tigers endangered? But people own them, so maybe there is a way to own them without it being against the law

[firecrackerbob]

im not an expert on this subject by any means, but my guess is that many keepers of endangered animans must have permits for them. I dont know for sure if it would come to that or not for the hobby. I can understand a ban on wild collections for many things, but Im not so sure how I would feel if I was told I had to get a permit to stay in the hobby... who knows how it will play out... just food for thought in that there are often consequences to good intentions.