Anyone who deals with marine ornamentals on a buisness level that I have talked to would agree with me that the canadian market is pathetic, (for the most part) I think pretty much everyone on this board is a fairly concerned reefer or they probably wouldnt still visit everyday. Sure there are a few stores in all of canada that sell quality quality quality and enviromentally sound. But I cant name enough stores to use up my ten fingers in all of canada. The vast majority of stores are pushing crap at a high price with uneducated staff, "yes jonny that baby naso tang will only grow as big as he has room for in that 10 gallon hagen starter kit, and of course the filter it comes with is more than enough to keep him happy"
Im not saying that there are not stores like that in the USA but on the most part the stores down south put all of our local stores to shame. In alot of Marine specality stores you can walk in and ask if you can speak to the on staff marine biologist. I plan on supplying as many fish to canadian wholsalers as they can handle but honestly that number is really low, if some of you only knew the numbers that float through some of the major wholesalers in the USA. With that said of course Im doing this to make some money "I do have to support myself" but thats not why I want to raise tank raised fish, Im doing it for the bennifit of the hobby, and I firmly belive that Tank breed and Tank Raised species will soon be heavily regulated in the wild, and Im glad, its about bloody time. If you went diving to a lagoon 5-10 years ago and then you went there now your jaw would drop at the lack of reef life. The hobby we support DOES make an impact on the reef and we as a whole really need to pull our heads out of our butts and make some REAL ethical choices, and that would be never buying a species that is available tank raised or breed.