Midnight Angel wrote:I agree 100% and at the very least DON'T support BP
Unfortunately, your local "BP station" franchise is only vaguely affiliated with BP. When you go to BP, you don't necessarily get "BP" gas, nor Chevron gas as Chevron, etc. With the exception of a few chains that have their own refineries and distribution facilities, you get gas from whomever is the local distributor along with a branded additive package. Around here, Marathon is the distributor. SO if you stop buying gas at your local BP franchise, you aren't hurting anyone but the local franchise owner.
However, there are a few places you can hit them in the pocketbook:
ARCO is a BP company, and their gas stations have gas from BP fields and dedicated BP refineries. (It's also very crappy gas.)
Castrol is entirely a BP company
"BP Connect" gas stations are corporate owned
Some AM/PM convenience stores are corporate owned, but most of them aren't. Any gas station which used to be BP Connect but has rebranded is corporate owned... otherwise you can't really tell.
BP has long been one of the worst corporations out there with a truly dreadful environmental record. Ironically, they are also the largest provider of wind and solar power.
Anyway I think it would be cool if those of us who are lucky enough to live near the ocean knew more about what fish are out there. And of course knowing how to raise a few up may come in handy one day
I agree that the Gulf has been much neglected by the reef keeping hobby. As fish breeders, there might be an opportunity here. It's hard to get people to pay the premium for
CB fish versus a cheap import... but if a "new" ornamental fish could hit the market and they were available as
CB only, then the collection restrictions in the Gulf could work in the favor of breeding. The hard part would be selecting the fish and getting enough stock in the chain to support demand, and then the marketing campaign to make it a "cool" fish to have.
Don't count your gobies before they've metamorphasized.