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Tuesday, March 27, 2007
HK restaurants' menu of endangered reef fish causes depletion in Asia seas
"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.