1) Donate to support the cause and spread the word!
2) Contact us to join our Action Alert! email list. We'll alert you when opportunities arise to send testimony, write letters and contact elected officials.
3) Purchase products for yourself, family and friends from these generous and fish lovin' companies (our corporate donors):
Books to warm you heart and raise some hackles by:
Can't get to the beach today? Kick the blues and
support the fishes in style, wear your
Available at BluKicks.com
4) Sign the Petition Reef Fish are not Ornaments!
5) Ask friends and establishments with display tanks to stop buying wild-caught reef wildlife.
6) Ask establishments like Petco and local pet shops to stop selling wild caught animals (including corals). Some retailers are selling wild caught animals labeled as tank or captive raised (caught as babies - raised in captivity for a few weeks). Others go as far as labeling wild caught as "captive bred".
Do your homework: here's a current list of marine fish species that can be maricultured (but may not be available for sale yet) compiled by Tim Hayes of Midland Reefs.
Here's a list of wild-caught Hawaii fishes commonly offered for sale in the aquarium trade. (While there are 230 fish species taken by collectors in Hawaii, these are some of the most common.)
They are years (if not decades) from being able to be bred in captivity. Print and take this list with you to Petco or any shop claiming to sell "only" captive bred fish.
6) Organize a boycott against those establishments that continue to sell or display wild caught reef animals. (Excluding scientific and educational institutions like public aquariums which do serve a purpose).
2) Contact us to join our Action Alert! email list. We'll alert you when opportunities arise to send testimony, write letters and contact elected officials.
3) Purchase products for yourself, family and friends from these generous and fish lovin' companies (our corporate donors):
Books to warm you heart and raise some hackles by:
Some Fishes I Have Known: A Reef Rescue Odyssey
Every Fish Tells a Story: Reef Society in Comedy and Tragedy with Hope for the Future, Maybe
Every Fish Tells a Story: Reef Society in Comedy and Tragedy with Hope for the Future, Maybe
Can't get to the beach today? Kick the blues and
support the fishes in style, wear your
Available at BluKicks.com
4) Sign the Petition Reef Fish are not Ornaments!
5) Ask friends and establishments with display tanks to stop buying wild-caught reef wildlife.
6) Ask establishments like Petco and local pet shops to stop selling wild caught animals (including corals). Some retailers are selling wild caught animals labeled as tank or captive raised (caught as babies - raised in captivity for a few weeks). Others go as far as labeling wild caught as "captive bred".
Do your homework: here's a current list of marine fish species that can be maricultured (but may not be available for sale yet) compiled by Tim Hayes of Midland Reefs.
Here's a list of wild-caught Hawaii fishes commonly offered for sale in the aquarium trade. (While there are 230 fish species taken by collectors in Hawaii, these are some of the most common.)
They are years (if not decades) from being able to be bred in captivity. Print and take this list with you to Petco or any shop claiming to sell "only" captive bred fish.
6) Organize a boycott against those establishments that continue to sell or display wild caught reef animals. (Excluding scientific and educational institutions like public aquariums which do serve a purpose).
For the Fishes
Protecting Coral Reef Wildlife From the Aquarium Trade
Protecting Coral Reef Wildlife From the Aquarium Trade
Working to Keep Hawaii's Reef Animals on Hawaii's Reefs!
What You Can Do