by Ret Talbot | Feb 12, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
HONOLULU — Five Hawaii aquarium-fishery related bills were heard in the House Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources and Hawaiian Affairs yesterday, but decisions on all bills were deferred to today, Thursday February 12th. Testimony regarding all of the House bills...
by Ret Talbot | Jan 31, 2015 | CORAL - Ret Talbot, Marine, News & Notes
Hawaiian legislature to consider 7 bills to change aquarium fishery—including 3 seeking an outright ban on marine livestock collection By Ret Talbot For decades now, the harvest of Hawaiian reef fishes for the global aquarium trade has fueled a heated, emotional...
by John Tullock | Aug 18, 2008 | AMAZONAS - John Tullock, CORAL - John Tullock, Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
Reports of Indo-Pacific lionfish munching on native fish species off the Atlantic Coast come amid renewed calls for restrictions on the importation of nonnative species. A proposed new law would adversely affect importation, breeding and possession of the...