Letter to Paul Holthus

[JennM]

First, I'm not criticizing MAC for offering to talk to Tetra. Where in the world did I mention or even imply that?? Check the post- I DIDN'T. I was pointing out the fact that it took them one day to respond to the hobbyists, but a month and a half to respond to me. I was criticizing them for taking so bloomin' long to address the issues I and others brought to their attention. Second, I am extremely appreciative of the hobbyists and industry people who contributed to the net fund. However, can you honestly tell me that hobbyists are more up in arms about cyanide use than they are about what Tetra did?? You don't see hobbyists emailing, calling, faxing, and demanding a boycott of companies supporting the cyanide trade. That was my point.

Mary, I read your post as you intended. I'm inclined to agree - then I'll defer to the 'missing' golden child/popularity post - clearly emotions dictate the expediency of responses, and MAC is currently riding the Nemo-publicity wave (can't say as I blame them - using the Mouse as a springboard...)

I think one of the reasons is that so many hobbyists SAW the show with the Tetra/Nemo segment, and saw how blatently wrong it was. That segment surely got more airtime than any MAC statement, press release or whatnot - I haven't seen a MAC segment on any news program, in fact the only MAC stuff I've seen is here or on the MAC website - it's not delivered to my TV on the late news (that's about all I watch on TV anymore..) so it's not spoon-fed to hobbyists. Besides, many in the trade itself still are in major denial about the cyanide issue - so if the casual hobbyist went to their LFS and asked - they would certainly be assured that all their fish were net-caught - after all, EVERY wholesaler claims all net-caught. I have never seen a wholesaler even claim to have "some net-caught and some chemically-caught" fish, but we here know the reality of that....

I think that if there was real wide-scale awareness of the problem, it would garner the same outcry or better as the Tetra/Nemo debacle.

Jenn

 

[MaryHM]

Jenn,

If you read the RC thread (makes this thread look like a short story ), you'll see that the majority of the people posting did not see the Early Show segment. One did, and he reported it. Then everyone freaked out- most before ever even seeing the clip that is now available on the web. These are the same hobbyists that frequent RC and are aware of the net fund issue, etc...

 

[Anonymous]

OK, David V. is a frequent, AVID reader of this forum (joining isn't that hard David, ask John, he'll help you :wink: ) he knew the second Mary posted. Long time to wait.

Kylen, did Paul respond to you? As being one of the brave first few how forked out the cash, and belived in MAC, I'd think Paul would want to personally respond to you and clear up ANY question you have.

 

[MaryHM]

David also had the letter from the beginning- Paul sent it to him. This is what David told me when I spoke to him about the misrepresentation of certification issue.

 

[John_Brandt]

Moderator Comment: New thread started here called Tetra Products Boycott?

 

[kylen]

Paul has not spoken with me personally about the questions posed, but I do speak with David on a weekly basis so those questions and my own personal concerns are discussed at length.

 

[MaryHM]

There are a few questions that I would like a response to. You said this earlier:
"Increasing supply that can be certified is the primary focus of our efforts and supply WILL catch up to the demand."

Obviously increasing supply means opening up new areas. These new areas will be in need of training and netting material. How is MAC planning on addressing this? Do you have a training team in place? Do they have the materials they need?

Well, it's been over a week and a half sent I sent this question back to David. Still no answer. Shouldn't this be a fairly easy, straightforward issue to answer?