From:
Helen K. Larson
Curator of Fishes
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
PO Box 4646
Darwin, NT 0801
AUSTRALIA
>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 13:06:18 +0930
>From: Helen.Larson at DWNMUS.MAGNT.nt.gov.au
>To: " - (052)owner-acn-l(a)pinetree.pinetree.org"
> <owner-acn-l at pinetree.pinetree.org>
>Subject: Re[2]: [acn-l] Re: endangered native fish in captivity
>
> Hi Peter and Adrian and all you native fish-keepers,
> Sitting in a poorly funded government institution as I am, I watch
> with dismay at the slow demise of restricted/vulnerable freshwater
> fish populations and species in Australia and New Guinea. Especially
> the quietly wonderful gobies and gudgeons - I don't want to see any of
> these become extinct! I feel I have no power to do anything about it
> other than to encourage as many people as possible to keep Australian
> native fishes and breed them in a responsible way - track stocks,
> parents, localities, etc and detail everything you observe, and PRINT
> the information in plain English in your newsletters and magazines!
> Lack of published, available information is one of the biggest
> obstacles these fishes face. Captive breeding may be the only way to
> restore/rescue some of these populations. And you "hobbyists" often
> know much more about the live fish than scientists like me, who work a
> lot with dead fish in jars. I don't have the time nor the skill to
> breed fishes - my job is to put names to them so we know what we're
> talking about before they vanish. Knowledgeable "hobbyists" have the
> skill to maintain captive breeding populations and we need to find
> ways of making this easier to do.
> Write It Down and Print It!
> happy fishes,
> Helen
I have some spare blank pages in the next Bulletin :-)
Adrian.
Adrian R. Tappin
"Home of the Rainbowfish"
http://www.ecn.net.au/~atappin/home.htm