ok so i havent actually seen chineese people and people in the third world putting arsenic into the water and i will see what i can find on the net. well i found
this but that said something about cyanide on the second page i still would like to point out that i did not mean to hook reputable people up with thease scare storys. but it is reasonable to assume that some fish will enevatably come from people who get fish the criminal way rare and endangered reef salt water sharks in this case but when you read around a bit over time things just stick in your mind and i remeber there was something on arsenic being used to stun fish as a way to get them ove seas. ok so they use something els in most case now but im shure they did use it in china when i read that. if i find the actual page again i will post it.
further edit :
‘A lot of unscrupulous entrepreneurs decided
aquariums are a way they can make money and
they invest without doing any market research,’
said Grace Gabriel, Beijing director of The
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
IFAW, which tracks aquariums in China, said death
rates are far higher than those at similar facilities in
the West because of a focus on profits rather than
animal protection.
‘Aquariums run into financial trouble because
inexperienced mainland investors over-anticipate
visitor numbers and underestimate the high
expense of looking after health-sensitive animals,’
said Anthony Aucutt, manager at Aquarium 21, an
Australian joint venture project in Beijing.
‘In this industry if you don’t have experience, you
get into trouble,’ said Mr. Aucutt. ‘A lot of Chinese
managers got into the aquarium business before
they realised how much market research was
needed.’
Animals are dying more quickly in Chinese aquariums
because of inadequate investment in facilities
and because many are caught in the wild in places
where cyanide is commonly used for fishing some
overseas managers claim.
