Effects of Aquarium Collectors on Coral Reef Fishes in Kona, Hawaii<\/b><\/p>\n
Brian N. Tissot and Leon E. Hallacher<\/p>\n
Conservation Biology<\/i>\u00a0, Vol. 17, No. 6 (Dec., 2003) , pp. 1759-1768<\/p>\n
Common sources for rare aquarium fish are Coral Reefs.\u00a0\u00a0 Coral reefs are ecosystems consisting of many different marine organisms.\u00a0 These many different organisms feed off of the coral or off of other fish, creating a self-sustaining cycle of life.\u00a0 By removing some of a species, part of a food web is removed from the ecosystem.
\nThe maintenance of a sustainable food web is important. If one predator\u2019s population is over populated, then the species will eat more of their prey to fuel energy. If a predator\u2019s population is low there will be less predators to eat the prey, and the lower food-web level over populates, then repeats the process of having another over-populated food-web level.
\nThere was a study conducted in Hawaii to analyze the absence of specific fish.\u00a0 During the data-retrieval process, observers focused on the count of nine popular aquarium-collection fish species.\u00a0 The fish count is recorded as aggregate data.
\nThe researchers used multiple sites to compare to each other.\u00a0 The sites consisted of legal fish-collecting locations and illegal fish-collecting fish locations.\u00a0 The results were low at both locations, and 7 of the 9 fish species\u2019 populations were lower at the legal fish collection location.
\nThis study has proved the sustainability of protected areas from fish collection.\u00a0 By making certain locations unacceptable to collect, 7 of the 9 species observed had higher populations than if they were acceptable to collect.\u00a0 This study can be used to propose more regulations upon protection areas.\u00a0 More protection areas will provide more safe habitats for marine organisms, and maintains sustainable fish populations.\u00a0 Sustainable fish populations are important to maintain the marine food web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Effects of Aquarium Collectors on Coral Reef Fishes in Kona, Hawaii Brian N. Tissot and Leon E. Hallacher Conservation Biology\u00a0, Vol. 17, No. 6 (Dec., 2003) , pp. 1759-1768 Common sources for rare aquarium fish are Coral Reefs.\u00a0\u00a0 Coral reefs are ecosystems consisting of many different marine organisms.\u00a0 These many different organisms feed off of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/evst399.mcguire-spickard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}