[clarionreef]

Also, Steve, can you outline how this collection for netting will be different from all other 'net collections' in the past.
The right combination of handnets and barrier nets are never given out together at commercially competent trainings.
Why?
Besides casting aspersions on people who were in charge of doing it wrong in the past, how else can I answer?
How can you answer for the obvious reason why commercial field training by non field people doesn't ever work out to well?

Since they did even the basics worng, where does one start?
I am not them and will be the only training director who is also a commercial fish collector and critic of the past 20 year tradition of fake trainings by unqualified people..

How is the netting going to be doled out to the villages? How do we know the villages will continue to use them after the training
sessions?
Nettings are disbursed after the classroom instruction, usually under a mango tree. We cut and sew them up as a part of the training. As they have no other fish collecting tradition and because we get to them first, they have nothing inferior to fall back on.
Net collecting catches more fish then cyanide. This fact alone commands allegience. To city people and incompetent, would-be and wannabie collectors of fish, cyanide seems more efficient. Like vise grips are more efficient tools to repair a carbuerator...until you get a real set of wrenches.
There is not a backsliding experience when divers are trained right and supplied right from the beginning.
There is a backsliding experience when the divers are trained poorly and not supplied with the nets and/or the right nets..
I cannot make this traditional mistake.