Someone is going to PM me soon and tell me to stop trying to keep this thread alive...
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Originally Posted by aussiefishy
encouragement is needed in this industry because workers earn low salary, and why are they staying?? maybe they can't get other job?? or they earn repect from their loyal clients??
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I think it's safe to say that saying that staff stay because of client loyalty is grasping at straws (there's a tongue twister for you). I'd speculate it's more likely convenience (finding a new job takes more effort than staying at one you've already got) and having reached a glass ceiling (ie. inadequate skillsets to move any higher). Certainly there are some people who do it because they love it, but in our money-oriented society those individuals are few and far between.
As far as economic theory goes, this world hardly runs on supply and demand these days. Government subsidies, anti-monopoly laws and organized consumers groups have done away with that type of thing. If companies like Shell and Imperial Oil have become environmentally-minded to protect their reputation, there's no excuse for pet stores not to be. I think that the age of everything being a commodity to be bought and sold is coming to an end. The problem this industry has is greed. Cyanide use and unsustainable collection volumes are testimony to this. Everyone involved needs to become aware of this before any headway will be made. It's one thing to ship nets off to the collectors and try to certify all imports - how much is actually being accomplished. Unfortunately most of our livestock comes from southeast Asia, an area with larger problems than just unsustainable fish and coral collection. Europeans and North Americans are perfectly happy to buy natural resources and labour from former colonies. 3rd World nations are desperate for foreign investment, and they will sell their daughters, forests or fish to get it. We can't ask them to regulate everything on their end. At some point in time the nations bringing in the fish and livestock will have to start turning back unsuitable or at-risk species, and regulating how many of each animal enter the country. If animals keep getting sent from Indonesia or the Phillipines just to die in a glass box in Alberta, soon enough there won't be anymore.