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I am sorry but this puts a lot of power into the hands of a few. Also law is very vague and open to whatever they want. Furthermore, captive breeding and coral aquaculture are still in their infancy. They can not keep up with demand. No stock , who is going to want to set up a reef tank? As for the cyanide, a lot of nations have new laws banning it. Chinese are doing more damage to the ocean than anyone. They clear out giant clams to near extinction and rake the seas for their food and pet trades. Having a few of these animals in our tanks and being a caring pet owner is probably a good thing for some of these animals.Well-managed harvesting for the ornamental trade actually has a positive impact on wild reefs as it gives people whose only resource is the ocean a much more lucrative business on a per-animal basis than fishing for food would be. It actually significantly reduces strain on the reef because just a few ornamental fish are worth dozens if not hundreds of the same kinds of fish caught for food. The ornamental fish trade genuinely has almost no negative impact on reefs (unless cyanide or something is used), but food fishing these same areas (which has a lot of overlap in terms of species) absolutely does have an effect.
I love and will support captive breeding efforts for a lot of reasons including biosecurity and getting better captive specimens generally, but it's just plain wrong to say that wild capture is bad (if it's not done poorly). Some species are hard or impractical to breed in captivity and it would be sad to lose wild caught fishes over a bunch of emotional and counterproductive arguments about reefers pillaging the reefs. The sad part is the places with some of the best managed fisheries like Hawaii and Australia are also the jumpiest when it comes to restrictions and bans... Which leaves the collection in the hands of places that use cyanide and don't rotate collection zones or collect much data on what they're doing.
This web site has a lot of into on the Lacey act, what it means to the hobby, jobs, and even a letter you can easily send to a senator. https://usark.org/federal-legislation-threatens-pets-zoos-and-aquariums-and-biomedical-research/Any link to the thread??