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  • Stephanie3084

For the coral that is sold here for $100, they receive at best $5.

Susan9583

Well done, nothing should be secret that doesn't become evident, it would be great to have a photo report on how they immobilize the fish...

Curtis9143

Off-topic Ah! We would love to go there, photo1..... In the distance, the waves are visible on the crest of the reef barrier, it seems the Papuans have been there too.... returning with their catch. Just imagine what aquariums one could have living in those parts! Everything is at hand, and everything is for free.... But they don't even need it, here you wouldn't even lift a finger out of hunger......

Jennifer

Indeed, those piles of J.K. (live rocks), thousands of fish, and hundreds of corals that are very expensive for us hold no value for them; such is the irony of people's lives... They would rather have decent housing and proper food; they certainly don't think about marine aquariums...

Steven757

They don't think... just as they don't think about preserving coral reefs. It's certainly good that coral breeding farms have started to exist, but at the same time, coral reefs are being ruthlessly destroyed.

Angel628

...as well as about the preservation of coral reefs. Deep-sea sailors recounted how the Papuans used dynamite to blow up the living reef, and then dried the collected coral skeletons to sell them to visiting tourists later...

Lindsey3362

a kind soul, but these people can be understood, the population of Indonesia is 234,693,900 people, a poor country, for these impoverished individuals who live in straw huts, any meager earnings they can make from the coral reef to feed their large families, what else can they do? Come home empty-handed and how to feed the family? Or spend the whole day under the scorching sun on the reef for 7-10 USD? So there is a double-edged sword here: on one hand, the destruction of unique reefs, on the other, some level of well-being for these PEOPLE who depend on these very reefs. The moral aspect, I think, is clear to everyone.

Jesse3979

There are also interesting reports about underwater farms.

Brooke3987

It's a pity that the resource on Sipadan Island, Malaysia, didn't open. It's a striking example of how government measures helped preserve the unique reef that Jacques-Yves Cousteau admired.

Sheila1322

Hmm! Interesting... I connected the battery instead of the skimmer and "household waste is not scary." (Read the comments)

Emma

We can't live like this...

Courtney4094

eh eh eh

Sara

The astonishing coral business industry...

Christopher8654

Here are the prices for fish, etc., in the Philippines: whether you want to buy or not. Philippine Peso (PHP) / American Dollar (USD) 1 USD = 41.96 PHP Let's calculate.................let's dream For example........ our favorite yellow tang Zebrassoma flavescens 75.00 pesos or 1.78 USD...............oh......oh..........oh Brothers......does anyone have relatives living in Manila?

Amy9618

Oh God! Everyone dreams of the Moorish Idol Zanclus, buy it for 54.00 pesos or 1.28 USD...............these bourgeois are charging outrageous prices............

Jonathan6173

No more than two in one hand!

Tammy2040

Mostly we dream. What’s stopping us? I got on a plane. A bullet there and back. Along the way, I picked up some orders - covered the travel costs, made some money. What’s stopping us?

Cheryl9296

I recently saw on "Animal Planet" a bivalve mollusk called Lima, post 16 photo 9. What amazed me was that on the mantle of that Lima, a glowing stripe appeared impulsively, resembling a lightning discharge. The sight was stunning! The filming took place in one of the Indonesian coral reserves, but I can't recall the name.

Chad9037

In my opinion, somewhere Yarik posted a video of this spectacle. He filmed it in his aquarium.

Kayla7655

It happened, but I wasn't filming in my own aquarium. Here's the topic.

Jessica8898

Almost all fish from the Philippines is contaminated, and the flight is much more expensive than from Indonesia, resulting in a higher than average price at the entrance.

Ricky9405

I would love to see how the Papuans catch fish in the reefs! I'm curious about the methods they use for fishing in the reef: poisoning is understandable, but I'm interested in the process of how they do it (do they just throw poison into the water?). Does the fish become sluggish or does it float to the surface? And what else? Maybe they set some nets? Traps? I searched for videos online and found nothing... Apparently, it's not recommended to film such things.

Heather

I once saw this process on television, on "Animal Planet." It was a disgusting sight. A guy dives in with a plastic bottle, with a 30 cm long hose attached to its neck. He swims up to the reef and starts releasing a whitish liquid into the crevices and holes. Soon the water becomes murky white. Everything that can be pulled out is taken from the crevices and holes, and half-dead fish are removed from nearby nets, washed in by the current. Then all of this is loaded into containers on the boat. In the non-toxic water, what gradually recovers is sent to the shore, while the rest is thrown overboard. It ends up gasping for breath later in our aquariums.

Guy

if people didn't buy this poisoned fish later, they wouldn't catch it like that.

Charles894

I wonder if there are any other, more humane ways to catch creatures on the reefs?

Brandon9634

Odessa, just in the net and traps

Jennifer7578

Maldives - schools of antias.

Jade

I have seen various methods (dynamite, cyanide, fishing rods, nets) with my own eyes, but when I visited my supplier, I watched how they skillfully catch fish with a small net; I sometimes didn't even have time to focus my camera. You can see some photos here. Added after 10 minutes Sulawesi school of Chromis viridis. I have never seen this species in such numbers, usually from 30 to 300 individuals. In the photo, there is 1/4 of the school.

Heather

Beautiful photos and colors of corals, oh where are these corals?

Cheyenne2747

Is the flight direct or not? I'm curious why the fish usually comes either none or a lot of cases, because all flights are not direct, with a layover?

Craig7302

I am a newcomer to the maritime field, but to be honest, I was amazed to see coral farms! For some reason, I thought they only took! But here are farms! And what farms they are! Well done! Sergey, thank you once again for the photos!

Daniel9952

When will the Egyptians finally think of setting up farms in the Red Sea? The airport is close to the sea, and the flight takes 4 hours. Oh... I wish someone would come up with the idea.

Jessica

Who knows if there are direct flights from Indonesia to Kyiv?

Michelle104

Let's hope that after reading our topic, it will be soon. By the way, having become interested in the issue of farms, I found this article about farms in Indonesia here and the same island of Bali. Here.

Russell8484

No. And the indirect flights are very indirect. About 15 hours, if I'm not mistaken.

Adam

With ideal flight connections, 23-25 hours.