How did they catch our fish?

[adrianlau]

If it is so hard to catch the fish in our tanks, I'm wondering how did the collectors (what you call them?) catch them for the aquarium trade.

Any insider information?

[ClOwNy_LoVeR]

is they either use sionide to temperaly paralyse them or dynamite to shock them.cheers

[xersion]

cast a big net..

[rainbowdarter]

ya, must be bug net or cage with food inside don't know wat they named it. But for deepwater they lift up slowly as to prevent pressure change, later fish explode

[rockfish]

i ever saw some photos of some divers catching the fishes with a big net of surabaya.

The owner of sentosa marine hired divers to have his fishes all net caught. Thats why his fishes are all so ex.. but i think they not ard anymore.

[jamomatt]

Sentosa Marine slow their fish shop many years liao

Heard they still into harvesting though

[jamomatt]

oops I meant close

[Achilles Tang]

They have big nets in which they chase fish into and then slowly use smaller nets to catch them.

Unscrupulous collectors use cynanide to stun the fish but doing so kills the reef and also hurts the fish which could die later due to internal poisoning.

Dynamite fishing is more for collecting food fishes but kills everything else in the blast radius. It is only used by moronic fishermen.

[flying carpet]

Dynamite fishing is ban every where but as we know money make the world go round.

As the saying goes, Money can make a man blind.