by CORAL Magazine | Sep 20, 2023 | Marine, News & Notes
A new interview with Pet Advocacy Network Excutive Vice President Bob Likins discusses the NOAA Proposal to end the U.S. trade in Banggai Cardinalfish. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed a 4(d) rule, NOAA–NMFS–2023–0099, which...
by Vincent Chalias | Aug 22, 2023 | CORAL - Vincent Chalias, Marine, News & Notes
The Banggai Cardinal, Pterapogon kauderni is an iconic and rare fish, but is it still threatened? A new proposed draft rule to prevent the US import and export of the Banggai Cardinal (Pterapogon kauderni) under the Endangered Species Act, would do vastly more harm...
by CORAL Magazine | Sep 23, 2016 | Freshwater, Marine, News & Notes
CITES CoP17, Johannesburg, South Africa, starts tomorrow. This is the 17th Conference of Parties meeting to be held, a meeting which has been held roughly every 2-3 years since the first CoP in 1976. CoP meetings are the time when changes to CITES listings for species...
by James Lawrence | May 30, 2009 | CORAL - James Lawrence, CORAL Excerpt, Marine
For many years, it was an article of faith among conscientious aquarists and many marine biologists that the collection of reef fishes for the aquarium trade could never lead to the extinction of a species. The theory behind this is simple enough: most coral reef fish...