AR-News: Aquaria 'risk to tropical fish'

[jim robertson]

Aquaria 'risk to tropical fish'

By Alex Kirby
BBC News Online environment correspondent



Resplendent: Harlequin tuskfish (Image: Ove Hoegh Guldberg)
Some of the most colourful and attractive fish to swim the tropical seas may 
be threatened by the aquarium trade, the United Nations believes.
It says over 20 million fish and about half as many other forms of marine 
life are caught every year for the trade.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3151384.stm




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