Banggai Cardinal Among Additions To Red List

[AK77]

The Banggai cardinal, Pterapogon kauderni, is among the new additions to the 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Pterapogon kauderni has been classified as endangered in the 2007 Red List because its small population has suffered dramatic declines in recent years due to over-collecting for the aquarium trade.

Earlier this year, the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES) rejected a decision by the United States to protect Pterapogon kauderni on Appendix II of CITES.

CITES claimed that recent evidence showed that the trade in the species appeared to be sustainable and that the species could be exploited under proper management, making listing under a CITES Appendix unnecessary. (See CITES rejects proposal to protect Banggai cardinal)

Unlike CITES, which serves to prevent or control trade in endangered species, the listing of Pterapogon kauderni on the IUCN Red List will have little or no impact upon the trade.


Red List
The World Conservation Union IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is produced annually and grades the threat of species that have been evaluated to its assessment criteria.

Species are classified as extinct (EX), extinct in the wild (EW), critically endangered (CR), endangered (EN), vulnerable (VU), lower risk/conservation dependent (LR/CD), near threatened (NT), least concern (LC) or when inconclusive data is available, data deficient (DD), depending on the results of assessments.

The current Red List includes assessment data on 2346 species of freshwater ray-finned fishes, 258 marine ray-finned fishes and 591 sharks and rays.

Of these, 29 marine fish were assessed in 2007, along with 72 sharks and rays, and 189 ray-finned freshwater fishes

Damn I feel bad as I have one of these!! Hopefully these will now be captive bred to enable wild population levels to increase signifcantly.

 

[Musho3210]

hoping time is over, some companys are already mass producing captive bred already

 

[AK77]

I'm glad to hear it. I hope mine's captive bred. The thing I don't get is that apparently these fish reproduce very easily in the aquarium, so why were wild numbers allowed to dwindle to such dangerously low levels??

 

[Musho3210]

I'm glad to hear it. I hope mine's captive bred. The thing I don't get is that apparently these fish reproduce very easily in the aquarium, so why were wild numbers allowed to dwindle to such dangerously low levels??

un educated people probably..... bad catching methods.... and i think it was only resently that they were bred on a massive scale.

 

[Lynden]

Personally it doesn't bother me too much that most saltwater fish are wild caught, though it would be nice if more areas were protected (still leaving some fishable areas). I believe mr Bush has recently closed off many areas of Hawai'i from collection, and I find this to be a commendable move as it protects wildlife, but does not fail to address the issues that has made overcollection a problem in many areas, such as the dynamite and cyanide fishing in the Philippines and Indonesia. In other words, it would have been pathetic if this move wasn't taken.

 

[Musho3210]

http/www.orafarm.com/cardinalfish.html

heres a big name breeder doing its job . Give it a few more years and it will become hopefully just as well mass produced as clownfish are.