Archive for the ‘Reef Conservation’ Category
What Would Happen if the Hawaiian Fishery Shut Down?
In light of the recent conversations centered around the Hawaiian aquarium fishery, including an upcoming episode of MASNA Live, we’re curious as to what would happen to the hobby if the anti-aquarium activists succeeded in their goals and the entire state of Hawaii was closed off to our industry. While most of those in the [...]
Anti-Aquarium Activist Releases Yellow Tangs Back Into Ocean
Buried at the bottom of a recent anti-aquarium themed online article in the San Francisco Gate covering the recent troubles Petco has been experiencing in Hawaii, a somewhat lengthy video shows college professor Dr. Gail Grabowsky releasing five yellow tangs into the waters off a beach in Waikiki. Prior to the release, Dr. Grabowsky speaks [...]
Petco Gets Protested in Hawaii
A few days after Christmas, the anti-aquarium protestors were at it again. This time, their target was a Petco store located in Maui, Hawaii. The reason for the 30-person protest? For starters, the activists aren’t too happy with the selling of Hawaiian fish for the aquarium trade. This has been an underlying issue for most [...]
EcoTech Marine Supports the Coral Restoration Foundation
Here’s a little distraction from your Sunday night football games. Coral restoration and conservation is a huge passion of ours, and should be of every saltwater aquarium keeper, so it should come as no surprise that we’re plugging the Coral Restoration Foundation (CRF). In the video above, the guys at EcoTech Marine are also joining [...]
Three More Pacific Species Show Up in Flordia Waters
It was only a matter of time before another non-native fish invaded the waters of the Atlantic, but instead of just one species it’s three. Perhaps using the term invasion is going a little overboard at this point, but if any of these three fish go the way of the lionfish, we could be witnessing [...]
A Second Hawaiian County Attempting Ban on the Aquarium Trade
In one of his latest articles on the MASNA Blog covering the aquarium trade’s legal hurdles in Hawaii, Ret Talbot tells the aquarium community that the Kauai County Council has voted unanimously to get a draft resolution into next year’s legislative package that would place an outright ban on the collection of wildlife to be [...]
China Crams Five Whale Sharks Into Relatively Small Aquarium
The public aquarium movement in China is a quickly growing one, with the the number of aquariums having more than quadrupled in the last 15 years. To go way over the top in an effort to entertain tourists, one such aquarium, the Whale Shark at the Whale Shark Aquarium of Yantai, has placed five whale sharks [...]
A Call to Enact a Ban on Reef Tourism
With all of the rhetoric surrounding the potential banning of the aquarium trade in Hawaii, we’ve decided that the conservationists backing any form of anti-aquarium legislation need to not only focus on one industry, but every industry that has roots in the ocean. The tourism industry, for example, is one of the largest perpetrators of [...]
Seems We Struck a Nerve with Snorkel Bob
With all of our criticisms of Robert Wintner and his hypocritical views on saving the reefs of Hawaii, it seems our articles and comments have finally struck a nerve. A few days ago, we wrote a brief article centered around a video that showed up on Coral Magazine where Wintner compares Hawaiian yellow tangs to [...]
A Heartbreaking Look at Shark Finning with Gordon Ramsay
Be forewarned, the following video is an extremely graphic look at the practice of shark finning. In a video that’s almost too depressing to share, popular television show host and chef Gordon Ramsay gives us an inside peak at the shark finning industry, from capture to kitchen and everywhere in between. The video opens with [...]
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