Finding Dory has been a smash hit at the box office, grossing nearly $300 million in its first couple weeks at the box office. But as with many movies produced by Disney and Pixar and targeted at younger audiences, there will be huge piles of money to be made selling film related merchandise, in the form of toys, apparel, games, and even aquarium kits and ornaments.
然而,与许多幻想电影不同,寻找多莉的明星的灵感不仅是一个虚构的角色,而且还受到生命和吸引力的鱼类的启发。富豪的蓝色唐Paracanthurus hepatus, has been a favorite of saltwater fish tanks since the beginning of the marine aquarium hobby, and now the species is a worldwide superstar who will become known to a whole generation of kids watching Finding Dory on repeat for the next decade.
众所周知,对于寻找多里(Dory)的制作人来说,这是一个好消息,他们无疑会以巨大的商品销售现金赚钱。Alas, since there is a real living analog of the movie’s star in a widespread and common marine fish, there will also be a whole new generation of beginner fish keepers who will want to set up a marine aquarium so they can enjoy having a personable and attractive living Dory-fish of their own.
广泛预测了“发现的多里效应”,但对于海洋水族馆行业中的我们中的那些人来说,这并没有带来水晶球知道这部电影将比在2000年代初找到Nemo所做的事情要大,甚至对招募新的海洋鱼类饲养员的影响更大。
一方面,对于海洋水族馆业余爱好的各种公司来说,这是一个好消息,他们出售坦克,鱼类,食品以及所有东西,以使富豪蓝色的唐人在家中保持活力和健康。另一方面,发现多里(Dory)的效果是对海洋水族馆业余爱好的审查更加焦点。
For its part the marine aquarium hobby as a whole has been very proactive at informing would-be new hobbyists. Collectively we’ve been producing countless informational brochures, videos, and articles to educate potential aquarists on whether they should consider whether they are suited to taking care of such a fish, and what they need to get started.
Naturally, with a real live fish gaining so much attention, the response from detractors of the aquarium hobby has been equally vocal in voicing their disdain for the marine aquarium hobby. When it came to keeping marine clownfish as ‘Nemos’ in aquariums, the hobby’s main defense is that clownfish are easily bred and aquacultured, and they are fairly easy to keep in an aquarium as one of your first fish.
但是,当涉及到富豪的蓝色唐人时,这些鱼对圈养的生命更加敏感,它们变得更大,对高质量的水族馆环境的要求更高,但最重要的是,它们尚未被囚禁。关于将富豪的蓝色唐人保持在水族馆中的一个加上是,业余爱好的目标主要是小少年,在一年中的某些时候非常丰富,然后在野外的高磨损率。
Thankfully, large adult blue tangs of breeding age and size are不是对于水族馆而言,理想的是,它们主要留在野外,成为自然环境的一部分,并生产下一代的蓝色唐人。事实是,有一个巨大且相对不受干扰的蓝唐人人口,这些人口与非洲,整个印度洋,印度太平洋和西太平洋的广泛普遍存在。
Aquarium fish are collected in only a few locations across the blue tang’s natural range and while the demand will invariably increase for this fish at these sites, 99.9% of wild blue tangs will never see a collecting net. No matter what convincing statistics the aquarium hobby puts up in our defense, the emotional heartstrings that the movie tugs on will surely resonate with environmentalists who believe that not even a single fish should be removed from the ocean.
Criticism of the aquarium hobby is unfair and counterproductive as the collection of ornamental fish by coastal communities is one of the most sutainable ways to添加值向珊瑚礁珊瑚礁,将它们保存在子孙后代和她的所有朋友中。我们甚至都不是对水族馆中蓝色唐人的兴起的一部分,而新的水族馆饲养员会大声疾呼。
All we can do is advise our friends and family on whether or not a blue tang is right for them, and keep putting out as much truthful and useful information about this fish both in aquariums, and their natural environment. We’re pretty impressed with the wealth of information that the aquarium community has already released to inform the public about the natural blue tang, and we’ll keep putting it up here as a hub for everything regarding the Finding Dory Effect.
MASNA’s page on the regal blue tang
https://www.facebook.com/natgeo/videos/10153707971233951/