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To: Eric who wrote (76118)	4/14/2017 1:02:46 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) of 86355

You know those aquariums people like? With the pretty fish? Those are reef fish taken from coral reefs using cyanide: .... Up to 90 percent of saltwater aquarium fish imported to the U.S. are caught using cyanide. A new petition is calling for the government to crack down. ..... A full 98 percent—yes, almost all—species of saltwater fish currently can’t be bred in captivity on a commercial scale. They must instead be taken from ocean reefs. And how is that done? Most of the time, with sodium cyanide. Sodium cyanide is a highly toxic chemical compound that many fish collectors in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia (the largest exporters of tropical fish) crush and dissolve in squirt bottles to spray on the fish—and the reef and all the other marine life in the vicinity. Stunned, the target fish can then easily be scooped up. Cyanide fishing, is where divers crush cyanide tablets into plastic squirt bottles of sea water and puff the solution to stun and capture live coral reef fish. news.nationalgeographic.com See pretty fish in an aquarium? Since they can't be bred in captivity on a large scale,they are all harvested in an environmentally damaging way.

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