As those of you who regularly read this blog know, I have been following the call for a wild-caught Banggai cardinalfish boycott with interest. One reason I am so interested in this issue is the fact that it seems to have captured so much air time in the hobby press, and yet there seems to be little effect on the average hobbyist.
As I have written elsewhere, hobbyists appear to still be buying wild-caught Banggais, as no local fish store I have frequented recently (and I make a vocational habit of frequenting many) is carrying captive-bred Banggais, and none of those local fish stores report that they have had a single customer request captive-bred Banggais.
Yet whenever wild-caught Banggais come in, “they sell like hotcakes” (actual quotation from one store owner who himself was unaware of why selling wild-caught Banggais might be an issue).
Weird, isn’t it?
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