Missouri Aquarium Society April 2007 Workshop recap by David Ramsey
Dinner was at Jost Chemical with an incredible multicourse meal (Greek I think). I don't know. Different food for a fish club banquet, but I think everyone was back checking the buffet table for seconds, or was it thirds. I know I ate everything I could get my hands on. It was all really really good.
After we all made pigs of ourselves, it was time for the club to give out the rewards. An active breeders award program and plant propagators award program meant lots of clapping and plaques for those who have done an outstanding job over the past year. I got a couple of pictures.
Then our Banquet speaker, Randy Carey gave an update on Project Piaba, a project established to understand the ecological and cultural systems of the middle Rio Negro bsin, Amazonas, Brazil, in order to conserve and maintain the live ornamental fishery at a commercially feasible and an ecologically sustainable level. Boy that sounds dry, doesn't it. Actually it was really good. Randy actually went there, knows the people, took a world of pictures, and really brought home to me the positive impact our hobby can have on a 3rd world location. For more info, see http://projectpiaba.org/Mission.html.
