I have about 20 of these I would like to share, but this one came up recently so:
I haven't realy thought about It In years, and you used to hear about it alot,
but recently a few customers that had unexpected fish loss
(from other fish stores) and came in for advice saying:
"I think that they were CYANIDE caught fish"-"because they died unexpectedly, or without signs"...
" and my waters good"...
-Im sure you may have heard of this practice in the hobby, especially if you have been doing this for years...
and I may be opening a can of whatever here... but, I want to assure you that: it never happened...
cyanide was used to "catch" food fish, along with dynamiting the reefs to stun and kill -again "food fish" once upon a time.
governments got them to stop doing these adverse practices back in the early 80s, noting that it ruined the reefs the fish live on,
and therefore was unsustainable; meaning, that the fish wouldn't live on dead reef areas, and the fish would be gone from the area...
and as for the cyanide, it was unhealthy for anyone to eat these fish, and so they came up with a type of " litmus paper" test.
where you could swipe a fishes slime coat with the paper tab, and detect it. Anyone caught doing this after I think 1991
was fined or jailed for it (or worse). and this was only for "food fish"
-as far as fragile reef fishes- it was NEVER done...
some thoughts:
1)can you imagine trying to create or import a poison like cyanide in a post 9/11 world?!?!
2) when they kill a prisoner with cyanide- or even if someone is exposed to it- they die almost instantly,
-they don't give the death row inmate a gassing, and 2 weeks later he dies... (its in seconds)
-even these "food fish" would die instantly, and float to the surface to be collected-not wait for 2 weeks!
3)there is no way that frail reef fish were slightly stunned with cyanide, they recovered, got shipped here from Indonesia
-waited around for 3 to 14 days later, and die instantly...
4) there is no special Kung- Fu "death punch" of cyanide that kills you in 3 days, 6 days, 2 weeks ect...
it never happened.. (atleast with any success- I mean when they mass killed the "food fish" Im sure all fish in the "kill zone" were effected...)
(but none made it on a boat still alive...)
I haven't realy thought about It In years, and you used to hear about it alot,
but recently a few customers that had unexpected fish loss
(from other fish stores) and came in for advice saying:
"I think that they were CYANIDE caught fish"-"because they died unexpectedly, or without signs"...
" and my waters good"...
-Im sure you may have heard of this practice in the hobby, especially if you have been doing this for years...
and I may be opening a can of whatever here... but, I want to assure you that: it never happened...
cyanide was used to "catch" food fish, along with dynamiting the reefs to stun and kill -again "food fish" once upon a time.
governments got them to stop doing these adverse practices back in the early 80s, noting that it ruined the reefs the fish live on,
and therefore was unsustainable; meaning, that the fish wouldn't live on dead reef areas, and the fish would be gone from the area...
and as for the cyanide, it was unhealthy for anyone to eat these fish, and so they came up with a type of " litmus paper" test.
where you could swipe a fishes slime coat with the paper tab, and detect it. Anyone caught doing this after I think 1991
was fined or jailed for it (or worse). and this was only for "food fish"
-as far as fragile reef fishes- it was NEVER done...
some thoughts:
1)can you imagine trying to create or import a poison like cyanide in a post 9/11 world?!?!
2) when they kill a prisoner with cyanide- or even if someone is exposed to it- they die almost instantly,
-they don't give the death row inmate a gassing, and 2 weeks later he dies... (its in seconds)
-even these "food fish" would die instantly, and float to the surface to be collected-not wait for 2 weeks!
3)there is no way that frail reef fish were slightly stunned with cyanide, they recovered, got shipped here from Indonesia
-waited around for 3 to 14 days later, and die instantly...
4) there is no special Kung- Fu "death punch" of cyanide that kills you in 3 days, 6 days, 2 weeks ect...
it never happened.. (atleast with any success- I mean when they mass killed the "food fish" Im sure all fish in the "kill zone" were effected...)
(but none made it on a boat still alive...)