Game-Changing Data for the Marine Aquarium Trade
By Ret Talbot
It was late December 2008, and Dr. Andrew Rhyne of Roger Williams University and New England Aquarium, was braving a New England snowstorm to get ... Read more.
The Trade in Saltwater Aquarium Fishes: Philippines Part 4
This is part 4 in a multi-part series produced by Ret Talbot as a special to Reefs.com. In this segment we look at the export process and export data collection... Read more.
The Trade in Saltwater Aquarium Fishes: Philippines Part 3
This is segment three in a multi-part series on the marine aquarium trade and marine aquarium trade data. I’m Ret Talbot reporting from the Philippines as a s... Read more.
The Trade in Saltwater Aquarium Fishes: Philippines Part 2
This is segment two in a multi-part series on the marine aquarium trade and marine aquarium trade data. I’m Ret Talbot reporting from the Philippines as a spe... Read more.
The Trade in Saltwater Aquarium Fishes: Philippines Part 1
The trade in saltwater aquarium fishes is one of the last segments of the pet trade where animals are routinely harvested from the wild in relatively large numb... Read more.
The Endangered Species Act
By Ret Talbot
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the Nation’s most effective conservation legislation. Despite its effectiveness, the ESA has always been con... Read more.
Does Pacific Aqua Farms (PAF) Condemn Sustainable Aquaculture?
A recent blog entry penned by Michael Rice of Marine Engineers called upon aquarists to not support Pacific Aqua Farms (PAF) because the Los Angeles-based whole... Read more.
Toward a Working Definition of Tank-Raised
While the issue has never entirely gone away, this week saw a seismic resurgence in a semantic debate concerning two often misused and frequently abused terms i... Read more.
Ecolabelling and the Marine Aquarium Trade
In September, a peer-reviewed paper was published in the Journal of Agricultural Economics demonstrating, very broadly, that ecolabeling works. Ecolabelling—t... Read more.