Auctioning Naming Rights to Pay for Fish Conservation - Fish Geek - Fish, Research, and Management


Auctioning Naming Rights to Pay for Fish Conservation

What a nifty way to raise money for fish……..

The rights to name 10 species of newly discovered Indonesian fish were auctioned off this past week for a total of $2 million.  The money will go to education programs and habitat conservation for the ten species to be named at a later date.  Now if only our fish and wildlife agencies could think of some similarly innovative stragegies to help fund fish conservation and management….

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