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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/12/2008, 02:40 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
a fish to die for
Baby clown triggers in season suspend all the moral and ethical musings we find here in January.
When the babys are in...[ at the 100 foot and deeper zone] the collectors must bring them in order...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 12:36 PM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
Tim, North Sea crabbers know very well what...
Tim,
North Sea crabbers know very well what they're in for and whereever you can Google up information, theres the world of info at your fingertips...not to mention the Discovery Channel, Nat'l...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 11:41 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
issue unpopular
I used to write for FAMA magazine from 1981 to 1993.
My last article quiery was to be a story about the 45 collectors we discovered to have died collecting baby clown triggerfish in a single region...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 11:31 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
State side importers are merchants and not divers...
State side importers are merchants and not divers per se.
Island based American managers are also generally not divers but one in Vanuatu and also Tonga was a long time commercial diver in Hawaii...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 11:23 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
They all have to have ..allegedly... scuba...
They all have to have ..allegedly... scuba certification.
Being long time commercial divers, they perhaps confuse "all around water knowledge" and skills with deepwater knowledge and skills, which...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 09:02 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
I am amazed that these commercial divers have...
I am amazed that these commercial divers have physiologically "adapted and adjusted" to lethal depth/time dive profiles that we learn are deadly in dive class..
However, w/ that said, they still pay...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 02:34 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
Karll One I know already and the second...
Karll
One I know already and the second ...I'll have info tomorrow.
I know Eddie had a wife and a one year old baby.
A direct western Union to the wives of both would be wonderful!
Steve
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/11/2008, 02:22 AM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
ruinous repetitive dive routines
Then I should shut up cuz there are a number of Americans running stations in the Pacific who regularly put their briefly trained employeee divers at risk .
The divers generally think theres not...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/10/2008, 11:55 PM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
The pressure came from the American manager who...
The pressure came from the American manager who knows better.
I warned him several times about this....on 100 foot fish!
I had no idea he then pushed them to go even deeper.
That means it was...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/10/2008, 11:39 PM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
No, A different Eddie from the other company....
No, A different Eddie from the other company. Joeys friend.
Steve
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Advanced Topics
01/10/2008, 11:38 PM
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staghorn hermit crab
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cortez marine
Yes, Blood and brewers yeast. They fed a lot...
Yes, Blood and brewers yeast.
They fed a lot of their reef tanks w/ it.
Steve
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/10/2008, 08:58 PM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
The Vanuatu guy was from Mascinloc Zambales,...
The Vanuatu guy was from Mascinloc Zambales, trained on nets in 1993.
The Bolinao guy, Eddie Balmoral was trained by others and was thrilled to get paid well to work abroad.
No where in the...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/10/2008, 08:27 PM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
Gresham, I just talked to MeMe in Tonga and he...
Gresham,
I just talked to MeMe in Tonga and he reminded me of the Polilio Island, Quezon province village that lost 45 collectors to baby clown triggerfish collecting from 1988-93.
The pressure to...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
01/10/2008, 06:48 PM
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Divers die collecting "cool" rare fish
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cortez marine
Divers die collecting "cool" rare fish
People,
The pursuit of deepwater wrasses in Vanuatu and deepwater ventralis anthias in Tonga has killed two divers these past few months.
I just got off the phone to my own guy in Tonga and he...
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Bay Area - Reefers (BAR)
01/10/2008, 06:09 PM
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Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
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cortez marine
Collectors die in Tonga, Vanuatu
People,
The pursuit of deepwater wrasses in Vanuatu and deepwater ventralis anthias in Tonga has killed two divers these past few months.
I just got off the phone to my own guy in Tonga and he...
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Advanced Topics
01/09/2008, 01:59 AM
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staghorn hermit crab
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cortez marine
Staghorn hermit collector
I guys,
I used to collect these in Baja for export and I know for a fact that the Scripps Aquarium in San Diego kept them well for over a year.
They would feed yeast and blood mixed together and...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
12/13/2006, 07:39 PM
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Responsible Reefkeeping
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cortez marine
walking softly on the earth???
If owning a reef tank negatively impacts the ocean, then how can any reef keeping be "responsible".
"Some reef tanks minimize reef impact by using only tank raised livestock. "
Some reeftanks?...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
12/13/2006, 04:20 PM
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How are fish procured in various places?
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cortez marine
Cyanide collecting has generated more revenue for...
Cyanide collecting has generated more revenue for the office bound environmental business groups pretending to be alarmed at it and pretending to reform it and solve it then it has for the fish...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
11/03/2006, 01:12 AM
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Arrests Made for Chemical Fishing
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cortez marine
training before it became a business
THANKS GUYS,
THOSE OLD ARTICLES SHOW HOW CHEAP AND EASY IT WAS TO CONVERT CHEMICAL FISHERS BACK THEN....BEFORE REFORM BECAME A BUSINESS RUN BY NON AQUARIUM PEOPLE.
Now it may never happen again...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
11/02/2006, 03:24 PM
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Arrests Made for Chemical Fishing
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cortez marine
'Every fish, lobster, clam, crab, eel, worm and...
'Every fish, lobster, clam, crab, eel, worm and cowry shell exposed to the chemicals is killed, not just the target species being fished for, but all other living organisms in the vicinity as well,'...
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Reef Discussion
09/01/2006, 05:31 PM
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Ban on imported Koi and goldfish???
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cortez marine
Ban on imported Koi and goldfish???
People,
Do I read this right?
Please have a look. An amazing amount of industry is at stake if this holds up.
Steve
USDA TO PLACE IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON LIVE FISH, FERTILIZED EGGS AND GAMETES...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
08/02/2006, 10:10 AM
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141
Is our hobby driving the horror?
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cortez marine
"....see several hundred of yellow tangs from...
"....see several hundred of yellow tangs from indo".... ????
Hard to take the thread seriously with so glaring an error...built upon and passed around.
Yellow tangs from Indonesia?
Steve
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Responsible Reefkeeping
05/29/2006, 11:39 AM
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The Plight Of My Nations Reefs(please dont buy wild caught specimens
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2,198
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cortez marine
pszemol, Beware the... Moro Islamic...
pszemol,
Beware the...
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
The MILF is the vanguard of the Islamic movement in the Bangsamoro homeland in Mindanao and the neighbouring islands. The MILF was formed in...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
04/30/2006, 09:49 AM
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3
Walmart and Certified shrimp farming
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1,275
Posted By
cortez marine
YES BUT, BUT THE DIFFERENCE TODAY IS THAT THE...
YES BUT,
BUT THE DIFFERENCE TODAY IS THAT THE PATH INTO THE HENHOUSE IS BEING ENABLED BY THE World Wildlife Fund AND THE FRONT GROUP IT SET UP...THE MARINE STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL.
THE World...
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Responsible Reefkeeping
04/29/2006, 01:23 AM
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3
Walmart and Certified shrimp farming
Views:
1,275
Posted By
cortez marine
Walmart and Certified shrimp farming
Wal-Mart shrimp certification seen as threat to mangroves
Date: 29-01-2006
Source:MAP Email: mangroveap@olympus.net
Wal-Mart partnership with Darden and the Global Aquaculture Alliance to...
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