The consumer doesn't initiate bag lot sales, 20% off Mondays, price matching or selling fish for cost - thats vendors trying to attract business. If vendors didn't sell the fish cheap, people couldn't buy them cheap.
True,
There is always a retailer in every area that breaks out of the pack, runs it like the flea market and ruins the value of everything.
He sells at cost [
having other income making this possible] reads his public well
and gives it away to keep busy.
Since he always has other income, this slash and burn retailing is made possible.
This is not
the trades plan, but that of a traitor in their midst who open the gates from the inside and precipitates the price wars.
Still, the trade in general starts
to give inin order to compete and pretty soon, scarcer marinelife sells cheaper and cheaper....and as gas/frieght prices go up. They become a party to their own destruction.
Letting the fate of coral reefs hang in the balance of a trades so completely focused on its own survival issues is dangerous.
As you have agreed, they cannot help much as they are constantly occupied with the incessant search for a cheaper fish and coral....to
satisfy their customers who are constantly occupied with the incessant search for a cheaper fish and coral.
Their skill sets have shifted into survival mode while NGO groups and reformers always assumed they could have tapped into the imagined riches of the trade and make it pay a share in their projects.
An economic upswing makes it easier for people to care and do the right thing, as surely as the downswing works the other way.
Now we are in what swng?
I know what we can do...how bout a
bag sale for a coral reef fundraiser!
Steve
Steve is not exporting or importing them, he's working for a group training them and working out policy, etc.
