The Dark Hobby

The Dark Hobby

All the pretty fishes and the price paid to tank them.

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The Hawai'ian Islands are ground zero for the aquarium trade who capture and traffic reef fish for hobbyists’ tanks, decimating the reef, ocean and earth’s oxygen. Native Hawai'ians, conservationists, scientists, aquarium fish collectors and breeders are locked in a controversy over the stunning “treasure of Hawai'i” – the ornamental fish.

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Kimokeo Kapahulehua

Self - Kapuna Elder

Robert Wintner

Self

Wilfred Kaupiko

Self - Mayor of Milolilii

Kaimi Kaupiko

Self

Gail Grabowsky

Self - Chaminade Univ, Honolulu

Ben Williamson

Self - PETA

Jessica Wooley

Self - House of Representatives

Jonathan Balcombe

Self - Author