Cyanide to Catch Salt Water Fish

[Pooky125]

For a project for school, I'm doing a persuasive wrighting, so, I chose Cyanide to catch salt water fish, however, I have not found any information on the side of people who think it's an ok, way to use it.. for instants, the people who manufacture, or who use it.. If anybody knows of any links, please, let me know!  Thx

 

[colesea]

Hmm...I doubt you'll find any proponents of cyanide use in the hobby.  Perhaps maybe the wholesalers who are able to import larger amounts of fish that way, but they'll never admitt to it because they'll loose lots of business.  You might want to go to the South Pacific Islands and talk to some of the natives there yourself as to what they see the benefits as.

Try Gemfish International Corp at (212) 370-3484. They're suppose to run a totally 'chemical free' operation. $50,000 a year salery they were offering too. I applied for a job there, sent my resume and everything. Seems like the aquarist job of my dreams. But when I got a hold of the guy, he wouldn't answer any of my questions and was really evasive.

The first was, "Are you for real? $50,000 a year is a lot of money for an aquarst."

And he said in a very thick accent, "You come work for me, that is what I pay you. We have all our own facilities, we operate everything from collection to the selling to setting up aquariums. No chemicals what so ever. Very revolutionary."

I said, "Wow, you do the collecting too?"

Him: "Yes, we send our people all over the world to be sure no chemicals are being used. We have total control of the process."

This is the catch. "Oh, wow, sounds interesting. So then, does the company pay for this travel, or is this taken from an employee's $50,000 a year?" I would've continued to ask "Is employee safety insured?" and so on, because some of these third world country don't like Americans very much, but he became evasive.

He also became very evasive when I asked him to define 'chemical free' because I was curious if they treated for parasites or other disease with medications, or if the didn't even use dechlorinators and such. Maybe he thought I was an industural spy. He kept asking me to come into The City (NYC) to meet and interview with him, but if he couldn't answer my simple questions over the phone, it raised alarm bells in me that said not to trust him. He was too eager to hire me and not ask any background questions about myself.

But call the number for giggles just to see what happens.
~~Colesea

 

[dattack]

http://www.idrc.ca/library/document/089980/chap3_e.html

Check the industry side.  It makes money for them and review the availability or practicalities of nets.

 

[colesea]

I know I know! Why don't we export all eight year old little boys to collection sites, give them nets and snorkel gear, and tell them to catch whatever they can! I swear, eight year old little boys can catch everything and anything. One of my favorite past times at camps was if the kids were bothering me, to send them on a lizard hunt. Wouldn't you know it, they probably caught every lizard on property.  On snorkel trips they'd catch lobster, batfish, rays, trunkfish, stone crab. I mean, you name it, little eight year old boys had no fear about kicking and screaming after the poor thing with nets flailing<G>!

Nets are great if you have a lot of patience and can hold your breath for hours on end. I don't have that patience much less lung capacity, I perfer the easy way. Suck the suckers up! Ever use one of those little syringe/sipon like jobbies? Makes collecting really easy, let me tell you.
~~Colesea