Time to Confront the Aquarium Trade’s ‘Gray Areas’

The Revelator, 16 December 2024 – “We’ve got to shrink the flavors of fishes available to hobbyists”, says a ornamental fish trade veteran and tells about these gray areas: the often hidden tolls of the trade, such as the negative effects of intensive captive breeding on fishes’ welfare, and the deaths of millions of fish and other aquarium organisms each year so people can enjoy watching the colorful survivors in their home tanks around the world.

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