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12/07/2005: "AQUARIUM FISH COLLECTION SHOCK"

It's now rare to see vast swarms of tiny fish above a coral pinnacle like popular Pixie Bommie on the northern Ribbon Reef region.

When we dived such a rare reef, (pictured above) it was likened to how 'Pixie' used to be.

The problem: licensed aquarium fish collection divers have various methods to catch the tiny ones.

Some reef's popular with the diver-travel trade because of the clearer water like that pictured would be best left alone (or protected from such legal acts of eco vandalism).

"A better idea would be to collect these tiny reef fish from murkier inshore waters, avoided by divers....if at all" say the dive boat owners. That makes sense to me.

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