>From: "Jay DeLong" <thirdwind_at_att.net>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
>Subject: RE: NANFA-- Carillio in the news
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:20:58 -0700
>
> > It sounds as though someone thinks collection is going to wipe
> > out the fish.
>
>Yes it does. What a wrong message to associate with NANFA, or to release
>at
>all. Who is the author and who is the biologist who suposedly said that
>anyway? There are millions of rainbow darters in Ohio. In some of the
>little streams where I used to hang out I could kick up hundreds easily in
>just a few riffles. And really-- forget about rainbow darters! How many
>aquarists keep native fish anyway, compared to stream degradation and
>development and pollution!?
>
>--
>Jay DeLong
>Olympia, WA
>"If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do
>not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts?
>To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent
>tinkering."
>~ Aldo Leopold (1953)
>
>
>
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