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> From: Lon J. Rombough[SMTP:lonrom@hevanet.com]
> Reply To: lonrom@hevanet.com
> Sent: Thursday 30 April 1998 2:06 PM
> To: sanet-mg@shasta.ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Don't Eat Orange Roughy
>
> Saturday night, April 25, 1998, while attending the National Ocean
> Sciences Bowl (see http://core.cast.msstate.edu/NOSBtop.html
> ) I heard
> Dr. Clyde Roper, world famous oceanographer (you may have seen him on
> National Geographic - search for giant squid). He told of something
> that was blood-freezing. If you have ever eaten the fish called
> Orange
> Roughy, READ THIS.
> Orange Roughy are found in very pure populations within forests of
> certain types of tree coral. The exact age of the coral isn't known,
> but comparisons with related species of similar size put the ages of
> the
> coral where the orange roughy dwell at around 1,200 to 2,000 years.
> In
> order to catch the fish, fishermen first have to drag the nets through
>
> to clear-cut the coral trees. Once done, nearly pure catches of
> orange
> roughy can be taken - THE FIRST YEAR. The second year, the catch is
> smaller, but still cost-effective. After that, there aren't enough
> Roughy left to be worth catching and the process has to be repeated
> elsewhere.
> Oh yes, it is believed that the Roughy are a very slow maturing,
> long-lived fish and may take 100 to 130 years to reach reproductive
> age.
>
> PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ALONG TO ANY PLACE THAT MIGHT BUY OR USE
> ORANGE ROUGHY, AND TO ANY POSTING SITE THAT WILL HELP ALERT MORE
> PEOPLE.
> If EVER there was a case of NON-sustainable agriculture (aquiculture,
> in
> this case), This is IT.
>
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