The majority are indiscriminately plucked from the ocean floor by shrimp trawlers, to be discovered by fishers when sorting their catch for shrimp. While making a case for the efficacy of TCM, suggesting that a billion users cannot all be wrong, she also urges "practitioners to seek out alternative traditional ingredients that have similar effects" to "help stem the growing demand for seahorses and other endangered species."Īfter reviewing the potential negative impacts seahorse farming can have on wild populations, she reminds us that aquariums "offer us a chance to reconnect with nature, lending meaning to the inflating inventory of ecological disasters going on in the wider world beyond the concrete pavements of the cities and towns where so many of us live." Scales's discussion of the uses for seahorse is well balanced.
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