Five supermarkets remove parrotfish from shelves: Thailand

[jdfmail]

Reef fish are caught mostly by either using explosives or by spraying poison onto the reefs.  No only are parrotfish essential to keeping the reefs healthy, the fishing practices harm and kill the reefs.

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/visions/coral/side3.html

http://www.seashepherd.org/reef-defense/destructive-fishing.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_fishing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_fishing

[madmitch]

Apparently someone complained

 

"This parrotfish you sold me is dead, it is no more, it has ceased to be. This is a late parrotfish!"

 

Sorry, saw Monty Python's reunion show whist back in England.

[ginjag]

Quote. " remove parrot fish from shelves"   Has there been a tsunami that made it's way into city supermarkets ???   are the shelves that wet or under water level ??     After removing them, where do they go ??

[SunsetT]

 

Boooo!  Parrotfish is so good, makes great sweet and sour, keleguin, or just simply fried. 

I am curious to see what their data is as to how fishing parrotfish is harmful to the ecosystem.

 

Parrotfish "scrape algae and other plant matter from the surface of the coral. This maintains the health of the reef by keeping algae in check, which could otherwise overwhelm the delicate reef ecosystem".

BTW - " An unusual feature of parrotfishes is that they are able to change sex, with females becoming fully functional males .... If the male should die, the most dominant female will become the dominant male, her ovaries becoming functional male testes".

 

Probably the opposite occurs with the Thai species............or maybe they mutate into Katoi carp !

 

[h90]

 

Well done!

More needs to be done to promote awareness of such campaigns as well as the reason for their existence.

 

To be honest, I had never heard that parrot fish were endangered, so I am glad that this was identified and that the companies have responded in this way.

 

Congratulations to their management for making an environmentally responsible decision.

these companies only agreed...because who wants bad press....please dont think..they are whiter than white..no offence

 

 

yes that is the point of putting public pressure on them.

The bad press is hurting more than the extra sale is worth.