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JennM;547234 wrote: Well the local divers would be what I'd consider the environmentally aware types - since they derive their income from the water, they'd be keenly aware of what's going on, probably more so than scientists.
One thing that does puzzle me though... a bounty is also a cash incentive, just like selling the live specimens. Both situations remove the fish from the wild, and in both situations they are "ecologically dead" as far as the ocean is concerned.
So what's the difference? (I am playing devil's advocate a little bit here).
I do realize the problems their presence where they don't belong is coming from. Just find your opinion on it rather surprising, considering you are usually in favor of keeping the creature alive. (reference - snake thread a week or so ago).
Obviously it would be a worse idea to try to "relocate" these fish to their native waters. Capturing them for the trade OR killing them off, accomplishes the same goal as far as the ocean is concerned.
Bounty or sale - cash is cash...
Jenn
It all is going through the regulated point, in my example. If there was a way to manage a live regulation, then that would theoretically work, but as it is now, anyone can go and catch and sell them. In my previous response, I very specifically worded:
The "of their own vices" is the key.that is profit for fish collectors, of their own vices.
As I mentioned in another blog, having live catch fisherman and dead catch fisherman compete for profit only fuels the desire to have them remain. Whereas, if all lionfish have "regulated" removal, the end game is the same. Get the fish to the regulator for the stipend. I really see no way this can be accomplished for live fish.
In regards to the snake thread, IMO, that is comparing apples and shoelaces. In that thread, people were suggesting killing the sanke, that is an ecologically necessary animal, simply because they "didnt like it", "didnt want to learn to identify", or felt "threatened". All of which were quite irrational or improbable in my personal opinion. In this case, there is an invader species, which can cause immense ecological damage, and there appears no real way to stop that other than forced removal. It is an entirely polar opposite in ecological concerns.