Hola ! Us pongo uno de los ultimos mesaje del Goodeid Working Group.
A hora estamos haciendo el censo de las personas que tengan Goodeids, estaria bien tener informacions de espanya
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From: michaelkoeck
To: goodeids@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 3:58 PM
Subject: [goodeids] continuing...
Hi friends!
After my holiday, my sickness and a lot of work thereafter, I am back in space. I will try to sum up a little bit, give you some results, ideas and concrete plans for the near and far future as well as thank you for your support and ask you for some help and replies.
First of all, it was quite good for me to have a little break after a 6 weeks intensive discussion, a lot of ideas and and sometimes too much ideas and dreams from my side.
Results:
We managed to revive this working group in September, discuss a lot in October with building up contact to some new people, not only in Europe, but also in Japan and the states. This was necessary to export our idea.
We specified our goals for the Goodeid Working Group, an international Working group uniting Privates, Zoos, Livebearing Groups, Veterinarians and Zoologists, interested in Goodeids, for the start:
a) create a database with basic information (sexes, strains, tanksize, aso)
b) start and run regional groups with goals shown below
c) (quite sure) forget taxonomical groups to make the group working simpler and more efficient
d) breed, distribute and save strains of Goodeids within the hobby
e) use the ressources of a working website for our own project (Poecilia Scandinavia assured us support)
f) inform all livebaring groups about our idea
g) collect all literature possible
h) identify "our" strains and use the french voucher system when fish are given to the next breeder
i) information transfer within all members
My dreams for the future, when the group is working well
a) make an own international website
b) main goal: help strains and species to survive in the wild (support conservation projects)
c) increase knowledge by using university contact to find questions and answers
d) help the universities with questions and "material "(I really hate this word)
We managed to find some people to organize and run regional groups with several goals:
a) bring people with Goodeid interests together within the respective countries.
b) organize a least 1 meeting per year for the members
c) distribute surplus within the members, look for fish searched by several members, aso.
d) collect datas from members without computer and forward them to a central database.
e) distribute pointedly species/strains within the members to save this species/strains from dying out.
f) create awareness within the fish-breeders in the respective countries, proposed way by Günther Schleussner
The 7 regional groups till today are:
France, Portugal, Italy, Slovenija, Hungary, Denmark and Austria
Alain gave us a timetable for our group to start our work. Here it is (I simply copied his words)
I think it could be a good period within now and january to make a breeders census : every responsible of a country could send information to the national and local groups, even to the press, to informe them about our action and ask for participants to make a register of all this people.
Our goals ?
1) Make a census of the captive Goodeids populations in our tanks.
2) Dynamise the strains management and exchanges at a national and international level.
3) Favorise information transfert between Goodeids keepers.
4) Organise every year a specific international meeting about this fishes.
For the moment registered participants should only be willing to register their fishes in our data base, actualise it twice a year, and be voluntary to participate in a durable maintenancy of one or more Goodeid strain...
The first round : novembre to januray = participant registration.
second round february - march = strains informations, species, location, collector, donator, others breeders know, number of fishes.
third round setembre 2010 = actualisation of the number of fishes and collect of maintenancy informations, tank size, water quality...
Alain
My activities for the near future:
I will try to make a paper coming week to send to all livebearing groups to inform them about our project. Before I send it, I will give you all the possibility to read it and change/add/delete parts.
I will try to find and recruite more people to run regional groups, especially Spain, Benelux, Germany, UK, Rest of Scandinavia, Switzerland, Czechia, Slovakija and Poland, USA, Mexico and Japan within the next weeks.
Activate the "Austrian Goodeid Working Group" by the ways Alain proposed.
and of course breed more fish...
Please let me know, if I have forgotten something our have written down in a way, it could be misunderstood, and of course, give me ideas and replies.
Thank you all for your ideas, your work and your time. Like Thue said, each one of us is busy and it is not easy at all to spend a lot of time now, when we are building up the besic structure. The more it is notable, how the things are going on. Again, I thank you all for this.
I wish you all a very beautiful and relaxing weekend, stay healthy and keep your fish well. I wish you a lot of fry (smile).
Greetings from Vienna, Mike
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