I voted yes because one cannot support the cyanide trade.
Here is how the cyanide trade works.
They squirt cyanide into the reef and 50% of the fish die and the rest are stunned.
By the time the fish reach the shore another 50% die.
A large % of the rest die in the holding tank at the source, the transit to the exporter, the exporters facility, the transit to us, the wholesalers tank, the transit to the LFS and the LFS tanks.
The ones that survive this end up in our tanks.
Like many of you have experienced, the fish appears healthy enough but with months dies of no apparent reason.
In the meantime the reef that has been squirted with cyanide dies together with all the critter that live therein.
The reality is that most of the cost to us of the fish is airfreight so paying double is not necessary. But if the fisher is paid double he most certainly wont use cyanide.
With respect, the posts that say their is not guarantee are not facing the issue
If we just refused to buy the fish species (like mandarins and cryptic wrasses, one half the problem goes away).
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