ExactlyThere was no need to collect from that site unless you are cheap and lazy.
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ExactlyThere was no need to collect from that site unless you are cheap and lazy.
Yes. You also have a fantastic ICW that holds a ton of little stuff, and is easy to get to twice a day. I see pike blennies in seagrass beds all over the Caribbean. I see frogfish everywhere. They had no reason to go to BHB unless you need a fast cheap score.Yeah, but it's still too small of a site though. Off the coast of Tampa I see hundreds of jawfish, blennies, etc. during my dives. Our shelf is huge. Nearly 100 miles out all within recreational depths. There was no need to collect from that site unless you are cheap and lazy.
They had no reason to go to BHB unless you need a fast cheap score.
Not true of parrots - they are captive bred all over the world and import/export of wild caught birds is mostly illegal, except for very specific cases. Even import/export of captive bred birds is difficult. Not to say there are not problems or abuses, but the whole thing has been highly regulated for 20-25 years. Wild parrots generally don't even make good pets, and "domesticated wild animal" is sort of an oxymoron. (Some don't technically consider parrots to be domesticated.)For anyone who has aquarium fish or parrots or any domesticated wild animal, someone caught it and in the case of mammals, probably killed the mother to do it.
Again, the point is not that anyone has a domesticated parrot now, or maybe they do, it's that the ancestors of today's parrots were collected by someone. The question was "What is a professional collector?" It's a person who collects a wild animal for whatever reason, biology, captive breeding, or aquarium trade.Not true of parrots - they are captive bred all over the world and import/export of wild caught birds is mostly illegal, except for very specific cases. Even import/export of captive bred birds is difficult. Not to say there are not problems or abuses, but the whole thing has been highly regulated for 20-25 years. Wild parrots generally don't even make good pets, and "domesticated wild animal" is sort of an oxymoron. (Some don't technically consider parrots to be domesticated.)
But I am not sure why the outrage - these folks are doing it completely legally - if you don't agree with the process - go to the state or the legislators...
Perhaps, but the issue here is the professional did not care. Their bad.A professional dealing with a shared resource should know that.
I wonder who does this sort of collection. Is it just some fisherman they hire to catch live specimens or is he some kind of scientist or something in between?"Not caring" requires understanding the error of your ways. You're ascribing malice to that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.