> Killie ethics also mandates that you do not cross a fish from collect =
> 1/96 with stock derived from collection 7/85.
I don't really think this is a very great way of doing things. All you
do is inbreed each line more intensively by not mixing them. Killi folk
have a tendancy to count spots on fins and find differences. :-)
> Perhaps ANGFA (National) can draw up a pro-forma collection sheet that =
> we request all members complete and forward to ANGFA whenever they =
> collect fish from the wild.
As Bruce mentioned ANGFA already has one. I drew it up many years ago
(which I have since modified a little). I doubt anyone else uses them other
than myself. I have several hundred of them from Oz and a growing number
US ones. I know Lawrie Barber had put some info together perhaps from
Qld but I have no idea what he ever did with it.
I'd tend to encourage preservation of specimens for deposit into museums
more than anything else. That way the data is a little more permanent
and doesn't go up in flames during the fish divorce. (You know, where
the wife says it's me or the fish and the fish invariably win).
Tootles
Peter Unmack