CORAL CURRENTS PODCAST

If you are looking to buy corals yourself from a producer,

read what they are about and how they got their corals- 

Support those who breed their own coral- and don't snatch from the ocean. 

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Saigon Aquarium  began its  business  as so,

and this is the big  red flag  if the company is

currently doing this, they might not mention it.

Research and communication must be made

between you, the customer,  and the seller or

hunter  you  are  buying them from-  ideally 

there  is  not  "hunter"  that  you  are  doing

business with at all. 

 

"Later on, we figured out it would be better

 for  the  business  fish  quality  and  better

choice if we buy the fish  directly  from  the

hunters. This model persisted several years.

But still we had to wait if hunters were lucky

to get the fish we needed. And also we did

not  have any  influence on where and how

the  fish  are  handled, packed or shipped."

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So basically, Saigon aquarium now "trains"

its hunters, however there is still this belief that the ocean has a irrefutable supply just for them , and that

there is "enough fish in stock". When really, in a world where people are breeding fish and corals to put

in the ocean, anyone who is taking them out we must deal with.

 

Even if this involves targeting their customer base, or fish to coral consumers,  and attempt a offer for them

, to allow them to switch to your supply. 

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Limit Hunters Consumer Base. Target and sell back to them.

New York Times, JOSIE GARTHWAITE,“learned that if you collect a really  beautiful,  interesting coral, if you export that, you get to export it one time,” Dr. Rhyne said. “If you keep it and farm it, you get to export it forever.”