Cardinal Tetras, the jewel of the Rio Negro

If you follow us closely, you will have heard or seen us mention on occasion Project Piaba . In our blog post on Environmental Sustainability in the Ornamental Fish Industry, I discussed the benefits of sustainable wild collection operations. There are several existing operations that are performing vigorous research into the best methods of collection and carefully monitoring fish populations in order to ensure they are operating sustainably. The fishery in West Hawaii, for example, is arguably the most heavily researched and monitored fishery in the world. But when I was writing the post and discussing the benefits of a sustainable fishery, Project Piaba is what I was most closely thinking about.

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This week's blog post is going to be a little bit different from the usual. Those of you who have followed our Facebook page for a long time may have already read this old post from a now-defunct blog from January 2013. It offers a little bit of a behind the scenes glimpse into Segrest Farms (and shows a little bit how much of fish nerds we truly are!).

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