Tag Archives: Bob Wintner

I’ve been sitting on this post for a few months as it fermented and festered in my brain.  In the past couple of years anti-aquarium activists in Hawaii have been leading a charge against the fishery that harvests wild marine fish from Hawaii’s coastal waters for use in aquariums.  I should first offer a kind word, because after all, they do very much care about the reef and the life that lives there, and they are doing what they genuinely believe is the right thing to do.  The problem?  It’s not actually the right thing to do, yet they seem to be gaining momentum, and from what I’ve heard their efforts aren’t going to end in Hawaii.  Hawaii, my friends, is just the beginning.  It is the star player, and if they can take it down, the rest falls easily.  And the ultimate goal is far beyond simply stopping the wild harvest of fish for aquariums – if really pressed, the ultimate reality is that no aquarium is a good aquarium.  However, it is only the aquarium hobbyist who can be the ultimate savior of the reefs.… More: