Recent content by mkirda

There is no one person here that can affect the entire industry, Race. Please leave personal grudges out of this. Very enlightening response in the next paragraph though. If the Flips solve their problems on their own and offer us a good variety of non-cyanide caught fish, what reforms are we...

Race, How would *you* attack industry apathy? You currently have two outfits that have their act together and are shipping good net-caught fish. Both are struggling for the simple reason that they can't get anyone interested in trying them out in the US. At this point, the 'problem' in the...

MAC was dead three years ago. The crux of the matter is that there are less than a dozen folks that are on this forum that truly understand the task at hand. Worse is that the hobby as a whole doesn't give a rat's rear. How do I know? Try talking to stores that import direct. Tell them that...

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/cat_pdf/321_C57.pdf http://www.tidesonline.com/ http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/ The rest is going to be entirely local knowledge as to when the fish breed and where, plus how the current flows. Pretty simple, really. Regards. Mike Kirda

Exactly. Cyanide is cheaper, it is known, and it is effective. Economically, it is a better alternative to the fishermen who use it. It is a no-brainer, folks. Clove oil isn't affordable to collectors in the Philippines. Regards. Mike Kirda P.S. As much as I would like to tout Clove oil as an...

An analogy: Imagine a forest that was completely devastated by fire. When it is covered in green again, is it fully recovered? Even if the green are dandelions? Reefs take longer then 10 years to 'recover'. Ten years gets you nice dandelion growth, but it doesn't get you old-growth corals back...

Not in near-term time scales. The best estimates would be that it will take at least a 1000 years for the loose soil covering the bedrock to be swept away, providing a location for the corals to recruit. Corals don't recruit very well on sand and muck, and the entire US coastline is sand and...

Peter, Undoubtedly the answer is no. Regards. Mike Kirda

Cost of lab space. You are basically running at something like $3 per square foot, plus additional overhead (Electricity, salt, tanks, etc.) if doing this in a proper lab. Someone could do it on the cheap in their basement, but most grad students don't have the time, space or the funds to do...

$200 is ridiculously expensive for fishermen. It is also an import for the Philippines from everything I've been able to find out... Cyanide is a lot cheaper. Regards. Mike Kirda

Doug told me that Mike didn't have them labelled with their origin. I haven't seen them personally. Regards. Mike Kirda

Kalk, I am somewhat familiar with what went on. Clove oil has been suggested for quite a while. There have been documented effects on corals, none of them good. Some spotty bleaching, followed by seeming recovery. In other words, much less effect than cyanide, where bleaching is typically...

Sorry for highjacking your thread. I do think it is great that you are working sort of parallel to what Ferdinand and Peter are trying. There are still lots of room for improvement in fish handling from the collection areas to the importers. Some of the things are easy to improve, but others...

I will have to get back to you on that, Jaime. I haven't been to visit them yet. Mike

Kalk, The issue with emissions is HERE IN THE US, not in the Philippines. Even with our cleaner burning cars, the sheer number of cars used daily pours out more Fossil Fuel CO2 than any other nation, and more than several others combined. I used the example of how things are different in...