clarionreef
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Rich,
We are taught to think in terms of what can the most distant person do....
The dogma became...buy only netcaught fish!
So then hobbyists bought cyanide fish assured to be netcaught by the dealers who fibbed to them as they are peddlers first and anything else second.
The MAC and RPI approach have assumed that you can work backwards from enlightened consumers who then pressure the chain backwards to pressure each level in the sales sequence.
The problem is that there will not be enlightened consumers without real honest field knowledge and this cannot happen if the dealers and the reform groups fib to push their own agendas.
Consumers can work locally and not be ashamed to think globally. The internet is here and when ever in our time could a hobbyist pm a field manager like Jim in Tonga or Larry in Vanuatu?
Ferdie in the Philippines is in here sometimes and Les Villages address was also given out.
We can talk to the field like never before.
To this end....we can raise money for the good guys on the frontlines and it doesn't cost much.
They need help now.
The most direct and specific action that can make a world of difference is to support the largest complex of netcaught fisherman from the old cyanide trade and donate money to the Les Village group.
Clubs across America can help strengthen this advance guard in our trades quest to becoming the best it can be and help accelerate their progress towards becoming a primary exporter to lots of destinations.
They need the eco-tourism style guest bungalos on their beach in front of their coral farm and they need netting all the time. [ Only the frauds need it once a decade ]
They are a real co-op and as such have no rich central boss. They have modestly paid directors and no funds beyond cash flow.
If a group like them can grow to become players, central players they can compete and pressure the adjacent cyanide dealers to reform as well to enjoy the fruits of clean fishing. Fruits that hobbyist/dealers have denied them when they support the big groups that do little but feather their own nests and work their own expensive agendas.
They are refreshingly defined by independant ethics and not trade ethics.
Aquarium trade ethics are different.
"Well....the fish held up, so it the cyanide couldn't have been that bad or we only use cyanide fo the harder to collect stuff."
Villages reform for their own reasons and must not be dependant upon our vacillating , flexible 'trade' values.
As a non profit, the group that assists LES Village can recieve and account for donations...and already do.
Help em out and get in the news loop of their progress toward changing us all.
Steve
We are taught to think in terms of what can the most distant person do....
The dogma became...buy only netcaught fish!
So then hobbyists bought cyanide fish assured to be netcaught by the dealers who fibbed to them as they are peddlers first and anything else second.
The MAC and RPI approach have assumed that you can work backwards from enlightened consumers who then pressure the chain backwards to pressure each level in the sales sequence.
The problem is that there will not be enlightened consumers without real honest field knowledge and this cannot happen if the dealers and the reform groups fib to push their own agendas.
Consumers can work locally and not be ashamed to think globally. The internet is here and when ever in our time could a hobbyist pm a field manager like Jim in Tonga or Larry in Vanuatu?
Ferdie in the Philippines is in here sometimes and Les Villages address was also given out.
We can talk to the field like never before.
To this end....we can raise money for the good guys on the frontlines and it doesn't cost much.
They need help now.
The most direct and specific action that can make a world of difference is to support the largest complex of netcaught fisherman from the old cyanide trade and donate money to the Les Village group.
Clubs across America can help strengthen this advance guard in our trades quest to becoming the best it can be and help accelerate their progress towards becoming a primary exporter to lots of destinations.
They need the eco-tourism style guest bungalos on their beach in front of their coral farm and they need netting all the time. [ Only the frauds need it once a decade ]
They are a real co-op and as such have no rich central boss. They have modestly paid directors and no funds beyond cash flow.
If a group like them can grow to become players, central players they can compete and pressure the adjacent cyanide dealers to reform as well to enjoy the fruits of clean fishing. Fruits that hobbyist/dealers have denied them when they support the big groups that do little but feather their own nests and work their own expensive agendas.
They are refreshingly defined by independant ethics and not trade ethics.
Aquarium trade ethics are different.
"Well....the fish held up, so it the cyanide couldn't have been that bad or we only use cyanide fo the harder to collect stuff."
Villages reform for their own reasons and must not be dependant upon our vacillating , flexible 'trade' values.
As a non profit, the group that assists LES Village can recieve and account for donations...and already do.
Help em out and get in the news loop of their progress toward changing us all.
Steve
