Ocean Voice International, Ottawa
Coral Health and Monitoring Program
coral at coral.AOML.ERL.GOV
Thu Oct 19 22:02:37 EDT 1995
A forwarded message from Don McAllister:
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Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:49:43 -0500
From: Don McAllister <ah194 at freenet.carleton.ca>
To: coral at coral
Cc: bd268 at freenet, bo093 at freenet, stefano at epaus.island.net, ah201 at freenet,
Haribon at phil.gn.apc.org
Subject: Re: CYANIDE FISHING IN ASIAN CORAL REEFS
Ocean Voice International, Ottawa. has been working since 1989
with the Haribon Foundation for Conservation of Natural Resources,
Manila, on helping aquarium fishers and others convert from use
of cyanide to nets. With a modest budget in the Philippines we
now have 800 of the 2500 cyanide users trained and 500 of the
800 have formed a national aquarium fish gatherers association
to export cyanide-free net-caught fish. We are seeking donations,
memberships and grants to help provide a holding and export
building and human resource development.
We have also heard from reliable sources about the extensive use
of cyanide for collection of live food fishes in Indonesia and
the Philippines, so we give credence to Johannes's report.
The high mortality of fishes exposed to cyanide makes it a non-
sustainable practice, though easy to use, since it is hard to
ajust the dose to merely stun the fishes, and many fishes die on
the reef and on route to their destination. Worse is that repeated
exposure to cyanide causes coral to bleach and die. The time for
the coral habitat to replace itself is longer than the regeneration
time for the fishes, assuming that that the use of cyanide is
eliminated or reduced.
For more information on Ocean Voice see our home page:
http://www.conveyor.com/oceanvoice.html
Where can interested parties get a copy of Johannes report?
Don McAllister
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Don E. McAllister, Canadian ## & Ocean Voice International, Box 37026
Museum of Nature, P.O.B. 3443 ## 3332 McCarthy Road, Ottawa, ON K1V 0W0
Stn D,Ottawa,ON K1P 6P4 Tel. (613)264-8986, Fax: (613)264-9204
E-mail addresses: ah194 at freenet.carleton.ca / mcall at jester.com
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