Soon, You Could Be Able to Tell if Your Aquarium Fish Was Caught With Cyanide

[Trio91]

By Jason Bittel
smithsonian.com

Soon, You Could Be Able to Tell if Your Aquarium Fish Was Caught With Cyanide

A new handheld detector aims to root out this widespread, destructive practice

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[falconut]

That's an interesting article, thanks for sharing.

 

[Humblefish]

SA put out this white paper on the subject back in 2013: https://www.sustainableaquatics.com/docs/Cyanide-and-the-Live-Fish-Business.pdf

In the 90s much testing for cyanide was done in the Philippines, and by 1999 when the testing
programs were shut down, it was estimated that cyanide usage for ornamentals had been reduced
due to this program of testing to 8%. Today cyanide-use has been estimated to be over 90%. This is
primarily because virtually all live food fish are caught with cyanide, and the fishers, who are also
catching ornamental fish, have easy-access to cyanide.