DAILY QUOTE: "Fishing is the sport of drowning worms" Unknown
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I would vote for a law against non native fish in aquaria Brad
1. The Aquarium industry would be equal or only slightly smaller than the fishing industry in terms of participation and retail outlets. (but not expenditure or media), it is not small, we are entitled to economic consideration.2. It is illegal to release fish into the environement with fines up to $200k plus eradication fee's.3. Every industry balances sustainable environment and profit, do we stop building, farming and mining too?4. Native fish in aquaria is a potentially greater environmental risk than non native fish (using the escape is inevitable argument that anti- aquaria types use)5. Arguments by fishermen against non native fish are largely hypocritical (fish outside their home range) and how many of them enjoy targetting Murray Darling species that are stocked outside their natural range.6. Australia's largest freshwater fishing industry revolves around trout a feral species which the governments actively breed and release.7. Non native primary Industry is integral into Australia’s lifetsyle, beef, pork, chicken, lamb, wheat, sugar, banana, milk, eggs, lawn and garden, cotton etc.8. The whole aquarium industry has been called to account here, when the vast majority of the industry is very environmentally aware and ethical9. It is widely known that cabomba will perish in saltwater, not choke seagrass beds.10. There is a restrictive list of allowable imported fish, and a list of noxious fish which are illegal to keep.11. I would counter that the fishing industry has been responsible for far more pest fish spread and translocation than the aquarium industry, eg barred grunter, bony bream, snub nosed gar, spangled perch, yellowbelly, silver perch, saratoga, barra in tinaroo, mary cod in the Brisbane, Logan and Coomera catchments the list is very long- but you never see the Aquarium industry throwing stones. 12. The aquarium industry is commonly blamed for tilapia, and carp in oz, both are not true. The carp that are rampant in oz are boolara strain, an escaped farmed variety, tilapia (contrary to popular belief) have never been a popular aquarium fish. It is thought that some immigrants are responsible for their introduction and spread. Look at PNG for example, they are everywhere up there and can we blame the aquarium industry up there? There is none.Australia's only known fish extinction was the lake eacham rainbowfish which was knocked over when mouth almighty got introduced into Lake Eacham (by water birds) from nearby Lake Tinaroo. Luckily the aquarium industry had captive populations and I think it has been reintroduced from these.
Good to know the Brisbane River cod isn't extinct as well.
Just a question , who regrets the release of golden and silver perch east of the great devide, was it a wrong move ? please educate me .Steve
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