The Dark Hobby (2021)
All the pretty fishes and the price paid to tank them.
The Hawai'ian Islands are ground zero for the aquarium trade who capture and traffic reef fish for hobbyists’ tanks, decimating the reef, ocean and earth’s oxygen. Native Hawai'ians, conservationists, scientists, aquarium fish collectors and breeders are locked in a controversy over the stunning “treasure of Hawai'i” – the ornamental fish.
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Kimokeo KapahulehuaSelf - Kapuna ElderRobert WintnerSelfWilfred KaupikoSelf - Mayor of MiloliliiKaimi KaupikoSelfGail GrabowskySelf - Chaminade Univ, HonoluluBen WilliamsonSelf - PETAJessica WooleySelf - House of RepresentativesJonathan BalcombeSelf - AuthorTeresa TeleckySelf - Humane Society InternationalKealoha PisciottaSelf - Mauna Kea Anaina HouKeith ChristieSelf - Underwater FilmmakerTaylor Nicole DeanSelf - Avid Pet AdvocateMovie DNA
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The Hawai'ian Islands are ground zero for the aquarium trade who capture and traffic reef fish for hobbyists’ tanks, decimating the reef, ocean and earth’s oxygen. Native Hawai'ians, conservationists, scientists, aquarium fish collectors and breeders are locked in a controversy over the stunning “treasure of Hawai'i” – the ornamental fish.
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