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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Michael Leverone. Timecode In: 00:00:14. Timecode out: 00:28:56. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Fish and marine invertabrate collecting for aquarium trade. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Glen Abban. Timecode In: 00:32:25. Timecode out: 00:35:04. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Charter boat fishing. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Craig Giovanni. Timecode In: 00:36:35. Timecode out: 00:41:41. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Key West Charter Boatmen's Association. Subject 4: (Interview). Subtitle: Jimmy Bailey. Timecode In: 00:42:17. Timecode out: 00:44:50. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Charter boat fishing. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Howard Singer. Timecode In: 00:45:15. Timecode out: 00:53:54. Notes: Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary; Key West Association of Dive Operators. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Decoded MS stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS FLORIDA KEYS NMS DAT # 1 ML =Michael Leverone G = Glen Abban CG = Craig Giovanni JB = Jimmy Bailey HS = Howard Singer AC = Alex Chadwick 0:15 sound gets better 0:42 ML "My name is Michael Leverone. I'm a resident of Key West. I've been here since '79, I'm in the marine life collection business i collect sea life basically tropical fish I hold them and then I export them throughout the united states and I have one customer in europe, same customers, same area, same fish week in week out year after year. I pretty much deal with the same people. you hear a lot ofneg some people they don't run the business properly so they're always looking for new customers I can't handle the ones that I have" 1:19 ac "and how does the sanctuary affect your work here?" 1:24 ML "well it affects me because it keeps me from an area that I can go to and rough for mate weather if you have ten foot waves breaking on the reef I can get on the lee side of that and basically spend a day invertebrates smell class ...that way I make a days pay its usually a short day I v rarely collect fish from that area but now its been taken from me I don't know what I'm going to do with my time... " 2:21 ML "its disappointing i'm in favor of parks but your selectively keeping a miniscule type of person out of the park which would be a marine life collector but then you're letting lots and lots of tourists go in ... but I find the reef literally littered with copper coins which are toxic, you name it I've found them (dog bark)... mask parts, motor parts.. .its all tourist related, I've got a collection of them in my garage its unbelievable (wind)" 3:15 ac "its common mistakes that people make" 3:19 ML "And probably the most serious one that's never been addressed is that we have scuba tours that go to the live reef and these people go under the reefs and they look at the fish and they exhale and that water goes up and it gets trapped under the reef, it creates dead spots but worse of all it blows out all the larvae all the tiny fish all the microscopic things you really can't identify yet and they are live fish and they're blown out and they never get back they've lost the safety of that little area they're in they're an infant and they've gotta eat and be cared for at all times but ifthey get moved too far and their area gets bigger as the fish gets bigger but only a tiny fraction of those fish ever make it to size and then even a smaller fraction makes it to a breeding size but uh that's where the damage is done a lot of touching literally hundreds and hundreds of people will go to a spot that I would only frequent once or twice a week. So if you figure that out I'm really doing a minute amount of interference with reef an exchange with the reef, so its really small" 4:23 ac "tell me this is the reef system in trouble the water quality system in trouble here" "I thin... (Notes truncated)
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- 26 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 26 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 26 Apr 2005 - Ben Brotman