Hawaiian Ornamental Fishing Ban PASSED

[gobytron]

Originally Posted by Myka

The ridiculous part is that they are all just going around and around in circles! It seems there is no progress one way or other. Both sides are using the same arguments over and over, and no matter what the anti-Ban side does, the Ban side won't give an inch.

Like a banning for the aquarium trade super committee
They likely get paid well to negotiate in circles.

[Seamazter]

Some wholesale distributers use http://www.reefcheck.org/
A group of folks dedicated to saving the oceans and reefs.
Many boxes i have unpacked contain this sticker saying verified by reefcheck.
These folks check and verify the contents of the packages to ensure that no red listed or poor packaging practices are used.

There is also cities who controls how many and what species are exported from a country, we here in the western world know them as the folks that wont allow us to import, but they also stop countries from exporting.

And each country has there own "wild life police" These are the ones that restrict collection in certain protected areas and some reefs.

Remember when Bush Jr left the presidents office he set aside 195000 square miles in the Pacific Ocean.

There are some protections in place already, what they are doing in Hawaii is only a new step in protecting the oceans.

Outrage over Hawaii closing ornamental fishing is bound to happen, but really they have tried many other methods already and are still failing.

[babyreef]

BLANK

[Delphinus]

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog...aquarium-trade

[gobytron]

Wow...
Could that have been more of a biased point of view??

Good for hawaii, good for the oceans, bad for us.
If any of these actually gets passed into law that is...

Hope to see alot more of this kind of change in the future...

maybe my future kids will even be able to see a wild reef in their lifetimes...

[Coleus]

this means no more Achilles Tang?

[Delphinus]

In case anyone's interested, MASNA has put together a Facebook page and Twitter account called "Hawaiian Ban Fact Check".

www.facebook.com/HawaiiBanFactCheck

www.twitter.com/HIBanFactCheck