unclenedsfishfactory.com

Found this on craigslist today


Northeastern University
Marine Science Center
Evening Lecture Series

Buy a Fish, Save a Tree

Scott Dowd
Amazon Biologist
New England Aquarium
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
7:00pm
Preserving Amazon rainforest through sustainable aquarium fisheries.
Since the 1950’s, every year large quantities of live fish are captured in the Amazon rainforest and exported for the aquarium fish trade. Tens of millions of individuals of a single species can enter the international trade from Brazil.
Over the past decade, these fisheries have become the focus of the scientific community. When the scope of the industry was first observed, the usual red flags were raised with fisheries concerns; over harvesting, habitat damage and socioeconomic inequity. However, after taking a closer look at the regional trade in aquarium fish, quite a different picture has emerged.
Come hear about the surprising role that these tiny beautiful fish play in not only the safeguarding of Amazon rainforest but the role they play in the growing climate change crisis
This lecture is free to the public.
Light refreshments served at 6:30PM.
The lecture begins at 7:00PM and is roughly an hour long.
The Marine Science Center is wheelchair accessible.

430 Nahant Road, Nahant, MA 01908
Call Tracy Hajduk for more information
or email t.hajduk@neu.edu
http://www.marinescience.neu.edu/outreach
Phone: 781-581-7370 ext 321

Thank you for posting that

you'd think my ol' buddy Scott would think of poor Uncle Ned's web site before CRAIG's LIST ?!

everyone should go...
particularly the large portion of the public that believe everything they hear on CNN or where ever
...namely that collecting wild life for the pet trade endangers nature...
truth is: collecting wild animals PRESERVES nature...
BECAUSE
if local people can EARN A LIVING off their forest, river or REEF
they have no reason to destroy it

My point:
if you take a few
nature will MAKE more
...provided that you don't destroy the environment
nor destroy/remove ALL the broodstock