Tuesday, March 27, 2007

HK restaurants' menu of endangered reef fish causes depletion in Asia seas

 
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"Wally" the Napoleon Maori Wrasse in the Great Barrier Reef (click on)


Nao Nakanishi

HONG KONG
27-Mar-07

TURQUOISE fish with red dots stare at hungry tourists from a tank at a restaurant in Hong Kong, the capital of the world's live reef fish industry, a lucrative trade devastating reefs across the Pacific Ocean.

Considered a delicacy, demand for coral fish has exploded in line with China's booming economy and some species such as the humphead wrasse are already endangered.