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*** Re-released into non-native waters
*** Re-released into non-native waters
*** Sometimes affects ecosystem balance by out-competing or throwing off natural food webs
*** Sometimes affects ecosystem balance by out-competing or throwing off natural food webs
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* Often goes unnoticed
** Hard to regulate
** Focus on other invasion pathways such as ballast water
=== Case Study: Hawaiian Islands ===
=== Case Study: Hawaiian Islands ===



Revision as of 23:25, 24 February 2014

Managing the Aquarium Trade

History

Global Economic Impacts

  • Export
    • Dominant in developing tropical countries
    • Poorer countries are often centralized around the trade as a means of income
  • Import
    • Dominant in developed countries with expendable income
  • Overall global impact
    • Involving 350 million fish annually (kona)
    • Industry valued at $963 million (kona)

Aquarium Trade as an Invasion Pathway

  • Major source of exotic species invasion
    • In part caused by owners that feel they don't wan't
      • Re-released into non-native waters
      • Sometimes affects ecosystem balance by out-competing or throwing off natural food webs
  • Often goes unnoticed
    • Hard to regulate
    • Focus on other invasion pathways such as ballast water

Case Study: Hawaiian Islands

Prevention Methods and Future Impacts

References in Popular Culture

  • Finding Nemo
    • Sparked interest over the relatively unheard of industry.
    • People now want "Nemo" or "Dory" fish
  • The Spongebob Squarepants Movie

References

  1. http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/padillalab/pdfs/Padilla%20%26%20Williams%20(Front%20Ecol)%202004.pdf
  2. http://www.hoikecurriculum.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/marine_unit5_activity2_appendix.pdf
  3. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1523-1739.2003.01522.x/full
  4. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0029543
  5. http://www.int-res.com/articles/meps2004/266/m266p239.pdf
  6. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X99000028
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