"According to a United Nations Environment Programme report, as many as 30% of wild-caught Sri Lankan tropical fish died before they even reached the UK market in the 1980s. Similar death rates of 10-20% were found in the Puerto Rican export trade.4 Some species have already been driven to extinction due to the practice of keeping fish for ornamental purposes in aquaria. Certain African killfish populations have apparently been fished to extinction by private collectors. Over-fishing for the aquarium trade has
LED to the demise of Singapore's local populations of six-banded barbs, khuli loaches, harlequin rasboras and pygmy rasboras.1"
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