[weez1959]

Hi Lee,
I found this interesting paper...
It was a very interesting read. It sort of burns my b&%t seeing how many fish die or are killed in this hobby!
I feel sort of responsible

[leebca]

I don't see a date on the paper, although I would guess it to be around 2000.

What isn't mentioned is that the collector, living on the 'edge' will eat the fish that were killed with the cyanide.

In the mid-1970's I helped raise money to support American skin divers to go to the Philippines to train the collectors how to use nets, improve the percentage that live to the middleman, and earn more money in the long run. The collectors aren't so much to blame as much as those middlemen thinking they can obtain volume by that collection technique. But that is old hat (pre-2000). It has been shown that net catching, rotating collection points, leads to better yields and survivors through the system.

Despite what the aquarist would like, the fish collected with cyanide cannot be visually separated from those that aren't. The final conclusive evidence of a cyanide caught fish is a post mortem.