Rover your question is a good one.
IMO there are few factors at play here.
1. Supply and demand. With a ban on cheap cyanide caught fish from the Phillippines and Indonesia, the price on fish will rise. With the rise in price I would expect to see a sharp decline in hobbyists and massive industry failures at all levels
2. However, within a few years fish caught without cyanide, properly transported would arrive with a next to nil DOA rate presenting savings to industry.
3. The ban on species on the Unsuitable Species List (USL) would also present a savings to industry as I would think that these fish would have the highest DOA rates.
4. The ban on the importation of wild coral would be replaced by the home grown frag business and Islands farmed corals.
You would get much smaller corals but the price would be the same.
5. I would expect those whose pockets were lined with gold at the expense of the reefs to invest in farmed corals, new methods of fish and coral and invert propagation because after all they have the money contacts and infrastructure to do this.
6. But most importantly, as nature with the help of professionals oversees the gradual restoration of the reefs, the reefs will flourish, the fish will be abundant and we can look forward to wealth of healthy coral, fish and inverts that we have not seen for a long long time.
That is why it is imperative that the use of cyanide stop immediately and why I fully support the BILL
