but first of all one has to get the fish. ;-)
Steffen
> Von: Christopher Scharpf <ichthos_at_comcast.net>
> Antworten an: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Datum: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 15:08:02 -0400
> An: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
> Betreff: Re: NANFA-- Bluenose shiner news
>
>> How many people on this list are good at keeping Pink Muckets, Rough Pigtoes,
>> Cumberland Monkeyfaces or any of the other endangered Unionid mussels?
>
> For that matter, how many people on this list -- how many people in NANFA --
> are are able to breed the fish they keep and profess to love? Easy-to-breed
> species like Heterandria and Cyprinodon aside, I can count on one hand the
> amateur hobbyists in this country who can regularly and systematically breed
> minnows and darters, hatch the eggs, and raise the fry to adulthood.
> Breeding temperate stream fishes in aquaria isn't easy. Hobbyists talk up a
> storm about "saving" species, but very few are able or willing to do the
> work. I'm not knocking the recreational keeping of native fish because
> they're pretty, or fun, or interesting. I'm just saying that catching a fish
> from the wild and keeping it in a fish tank until it dies is a long way from
> so-called "conservation collecting."
>
> If one were to round up every last specimen of P. welaka from the wild and
> distribute them to hobbyists for "safekeeping," the species would be
> functionally extinct in about 2 years.
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
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