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Aside from the horrifying human toll in Bali following this weeks bombing there may be much more to come.
The countries Minister of Tourism said..."We're finished".
If our own trade had much of a chance to effect reforms in Indos defiantly willful and unapologetic cyanide trade in tropical fish, they may have just been delt a serious blow. As dangerous as it has been for the past decade to even attempt change there, it is much worse now. I for one, will not be going there to train with any organization. My wife didn't want it before the bombing...now its out of the question.
Unless Muslim trainers from Indonesia can come outside their country to be trained properly, its not going to happen now. I mean trained to a professional standard of real commercial fish collecting with no backsliding, not just enough to impress non professionals [which has generally been the case for the past decade].
I hope coral farms, sarcophyton and zooanthid culture and clam farms take off in a big way outside of Indo as this trade has too many of its eggs in one basket. That tragic bombing was not what the newly emerging experiment in Democracy in Indo needed at all and it reminds us that the country that anchors the entire reef trade is not a good bet for the future.
We are dependant upon Indo for much more than most people relize.
The only country left with anywhere near the abundance and diversity the trade thinks its entitled to is New Guinea.
Starting with a clean slate and no history of cyanide fishing, New Guinea will be the challenge of the decades to come.
Steve Robinson
The countries Minister of Tourism said..."We're finished".
If our own trade had much of a chance to effect reforms in Indos defiantly willful and unapologetic cyanide trade in tropical fish, they may have just been delt a serious blow. As dangerous as it has been for the past decade to even attempt change there, it is much worse now. I for one, will not be going there to train with any organization. My wife didn't want it before the bombing...now its out of the question.
Unless Muslim trainers from Indonesia can come outside their country to be trained properly, its not going to happen now. I mean trained to a professional standard of real commercial fish collecting with no backsliding, not just enough to impress non professionals [which has generally been the case for the past decade].
I hope coral farms, sarcophyton and zooanthid culture and clam farms take off in a big way outside of Indo as this trade has too many of its eggs in one basket. That tragic bombing was not what the newly emerging experiment in Democracy in Indo needed at all and it reminds us that the country that anchors the entire reef trade is not a good bet for the future.
We are dependant upon Indo for much more than most people relize.
The only country left with anywhere near the abundance and diversity the trade thinks its entitled to is New Guinea.
Starting with a clean slate and no history of cyanide fishing, New Guinea will be the challenge of the decades to come.
Steve Robinson
