How are fish captured

[Marcel Beaudoin]

Someone in another ng posetd the following info on how fish are captured. I
haven't listened to the radio program yet, but would like your thoughts. I
am also not sure whether arsenic or cyanide is actually used.


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Right. Know how they're sometimes captured? They're stunned with arsenic
to help the divers catch them. It kills many and leaves others
permanently weak. Even more alarming, the arsenic kills the reefs where
they live, resulting in widespread ecologic devastation. There was just
a story on it last week on NPR. It was a 3 part National Geographic
Expeditions story, and you can hear it by going to www.npr.org, clicking
on archives, then doing a search for "tropical fish" heard on "morning
edition." The story was about how they're trying to reeducate the local
divers to not use arsenic, fortunately with some success.


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Marcel

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|| Someone in another ng posetd the following info on how fish are
|| captured. I haven't listened to the radio program yet, but would
|| like your thoughts. I am also not sure whether arsenic or cyanide is
|| actually used.
||
||
|| *************
|| Right. Know how they're sometimes captured? They're stunned with
|| arsenic to help the divers catch them. It kills many and leaves
|| others
|| permanently weak. Even more alarming, the arsenic kills the reefs
|| where they live, resulting in widespread ecologic devastation. There
|| was just
|| a story on it last week on NPR. It was a 3 part National Geographic
|| Expeditions story, and you can hear it by going to www.npr.org,
|| clicking on archives, then doing a search for "tropical fish" heard
|| on "morning edition." The story was about how they're trying to
|| reeducate the local divers to not use arsenic, fortunately with some
|| success.
||
|| ***********
||
|| Marcel

I've heard they used electricution, but the arsenic sure is worse....

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[Mean_Chlorine]

Marcel Beaudoin > wrote in message >...

> edition." The story was about how they're trying to reeducate the local
> divers to not use arsenic, fortunately with some success.

Arsenic? You sure you don't mean cyanide?

[Justin Boucher]

They used to use Potassium Cyanide in the Philipines to capture trade marine
fish. It would absolutely destroy the reef system after a period of time.
Over the years however, news of this type of capturing spread and hobbyist
around the world avoided Philipine regional fish like the plague. It
practically destroyed their fish hobbyist collection industry. They've
since made some real improvements however the reputation the Philipines has
is a constant uphill battle for reputible fish collection companies there.
I'm sure there might be some companies that still exist and use the
potassium cyanide collection method however I feel that they're a dying
breed. More and more people, including marine hobbyists, are becoming more
concerned about the reef that's left behind during harvesting.

Justin

"Mean_Chlorine" > wrote in message
m...
> Marcel Beaudoin > wrote in message
>...
>
> > edition." The story was about how they're trying to reeducate the local
> > divers to not use arsenic, fortunately with some success.
>
> Arsenic? You sure you don't mean cyanide?

[Mean_Chlorine]

"Justin Boucher" > wrote in message >...

> > > edition." The story was about how they're trying to reeducate the local
> > > divers to not use arsenic, fortunately with some success.
> >
> > Arsenic? You sure you don't mean cyanide?

> They used to use Potassium Cyanide in the Philipines to capture trade marine
> fish.
....

Oh yes, cyanide is still in widespread use for capturing marine fish,
even though it is pretty universally outlawed.

However, arsenic would be much worse, which is why I was curious as to
whether this poison is really used to capture fish (freshwater or
marine)?