Recent content by Dogfish Head

Friends: Perhaps I can clarify this allegation a bit. To be transparent, I am Chip Barber. From 1989-2001 I worked for the World Resources Institute in DC, based in the Philippines from 1994-2001, and we did joint work with IMA from 1996-2001 to expose the cyanide fishing issue in printed...

Haven't posted in a long while (just "lurked") since I get the feeling that the opinions of people who are not aquarium fish traffickers are not valued very highly in this forum, but since someone asked for info on live reef food fish sources on the web, here are some: There are indeed some...

My impression from a recent trip and lots of discussions in-country is that the collection of soft corals and anemones for the aquarium industry in Indonesia (esp. South Sulawesi) is totally out of control, unregulated, and totally unsustainable. Any thoughts?

You don't have to be a mining executive or a miner to see the damage caused to the environment by mining operations -- indeed they are the least likely to call attention to the damge their industry does. So get off this idea that only those who are fish merchants have anything worthwhile to say...

Friends: A simple question: I am doing some work for the World Bank on designing of their big coral reef conservation project in Indonesia, Coremap 2, which will come on line early next year with $80 million over five years for major coral reef sites in eastern Indonesia. I have been asked to...

Steve: Well I hoped to get an answer of a substantive nature, but I didn't. Just to set the record straight: From 1989 to September 2001 I worked for the World Resources Institute (WRI), based in Manila from 1994-2001. Between 1997 and 2001, WRI carried out a collaborative project with IMA...

Steve: You are very eloquent, and spend a lot of time on this site trashing a lot of people for wasting money and time not doing the right thing to solve the cyanide problem. But you may remember that I asked you, over year ago, for your recommendations on what, specifically, would constitute...

Kalkbreath: I think you have me confused with the Chip who is a collector in the Cooks, that's not me! So sorry, I can't help you with your questions. I am just a policy wonk type, one of those evil people working for an environmental NGO that Steve Robinson is always going on about. :twisted:

No idea, since the idea that the costs of certified fish would price them out of the market seems to go against MAC's success. My experience with timber certification (which also has a checkered history) is that there can be some market premium for sustainably produced timber, and that is a...

Mike: I thought I clarified that via John Brandt. I NEVER said that -- what I said was that for certification to really work, it would take some modest premium on net caught fish being passed on to the collector, but it wouldn't take that much, probably no more than 4-6%. The quote that ended...

Well I've been following the discussion for some months, and thought it was time to join the fray. Introducing myself: Chip Barber, currently a consultant on various protected areas and environmental issues globally and in Southeast Asia (including the Philippines) for The Nature Conservancy...