Re: NANFA-- Collecting ethics

anutej_at_loxinfo.co.th
Tue, 13 Jan 2004 00:56:50 +0700

Depends. Seen lots of a****le collecters, fishermen, scientists,
officials, and hobbyists. Collecters who collecting anything that
move and have $value, fishermen who dam the whole stream & drying it &
collecting everything edible [loach, insect, tadpoles, etc] or gillnet
the river from one side to the other side using mesh size far smaller
than the law allow, scientist using cyanide to wipe out everything in
the stream for specimens and doesn't give a damn about its future
after description, officials who dump in million of exotics as part of
the job [and the more released = better job prospect in the future],
fisheries official who banned fishermens from fishing with explosives
but do it themselves, and hobbyist who want rare stuffs no matter how
imperil it is [actually the rarer the better especially cites
animals].
There are bad apples everywhere. But don't brand all apples bad
because of it. The suggestion about some screening sounds good.

Tony

EELReprah_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 1/12/04 9:50:27 AM, njz_at_clevelandmetroparks.com writes:
>
> << There are certainly a higher percentage of biologists with a
>
> passion that hobbyists. >>
>
> I don't buy that. I think the percentage of passion is probably the same. The
> hobbyist has only passion as a driving force, The professional has both
> passion and livelihood. Quantitative evaluation is impossible since I don't know
> how to measure the passion quotient.
>
> Lee Harper
> Media, PA
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