Re: [RML] Banning all PNG fish

peter.unmack at ASU.Edu
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 08:22:54 -0700 (MST)

On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Adrian R. Tappin wrote:

> You know, lately I've been having this recurring nightmare that has "Men in
> Black" wearing sunglasses, holding fish nets and plastic bags in their hands
> and watching my every move and you know what, one of them looks very much
> like Peter Unmack.

Tut tut Adrian, lowering yourself to public personal attacks now. What
ever happened to playing the ball and not the player? We are not on
opposing teams here Adrian, just different factions perhaps. I'm sorry,
I don't agree with everything you are saying, and someone needs to
present the opposing opinion for the sake of a better quality arguement
whether we all agree or not. I like to challenge people by in part
playing devil's advocate, it's important I think for the quality of the
discussion.

I've already qualified my thoughts on aquarium fish introductions in the
previous reply to Roy's comments and won't repeat that here except to say
that I agree that a number of NG/IJ rainbows probably aren't the threat
they have been made to be although the evidence to prove this is largely
hearsay on both sides of the fence. I'd rather replace hearsay with
better evidence. Unfortunately nobody seems prepared to do this.

Tootles

Peter J Unmack peter.unmack at asu.edu
PO Box 1454
Tempe AZ 85280-1454, USA
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