Fwd: Re: wild-caught fish -Reply

["Ed Pon" <edpon@hotmail.com>]

Steve wrote:
>Maintaining quality bloodlines/identifications is crucial to the long 
term
>sustainability of a strain in the hobby. It's doubtful that aquarium 
apisto
>stocks will ever be required to re-populate lost wild populations. 
However,
>given the unstable nature of the political climate in many south 
american
>countries and the flar flung collecting locales of some species, you 
never
>know when the latest import will be the last. Species conservation for 
at
>least the hobby sake is a worthwhile goal, is there any organization
>willing to take the lead in supporting such effort?
>- Steve Waldron

Steve--What organizations come to mind?  The first one that comes to my 
mind is the Apistogramma Study Group, yet they are poorly represented on 
this list.  The communication medium necessary to keep track of who 
wants to raise what species and who has what species is reduced to 
snailmail (U.S. Postal).  Meetings once a year won't make this happen 
either if hobbyist participation is required.



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