Certainly aquaculturing is the way to go for the future, a very "green" thing to do. The one drawback is the added expense of aquaculturing (at least in the case of tank-raised fishes), $100 for a $30 clownfish is very discouraging to would-be buyers of the fish. Hopefully they will be able to get their operating cost and the price down as time goes on. I personally wouldn't mind paying a few extra bucks for aquacultured specimens, as long as the prices were not too exorbitant.But, we are to blame if we choose to buy a wild caught specimen when an aqua cultured one is available. The push to more aqcuaculturing should be the goal which will require taking some wild caught specimens to start the culture process.
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