This message has been posted on a few other fishboards today as well, and it gets the same response in each place.
Fishboy, the ban is only for those specimens in Hawaiian waters. The only irksome part is the restrictions on transshipping through that state, which could be a problem requiring expensive and annoying re-routing.
I will agree with wetpets that this is a bit extreme and goes a bit too far, maybe, but I don't think it's going to be the end of the industry. Some parts are absolutely sensible, though. Cleaner Wrasse collection should have been banned years ago, for example.
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