The live fish trade can refer to the live food fish trade (for dinner) or to the ornamental fish trade (for aquariums). The fish can come from many places, but most comes from Southeast Asia.
The live food fish trade is a global system that links fishing communities with markets, primarily in Hong Kong and mainland China. Many of the fish are captured on coral reefs in Southeast Asia or the Pacific Island nations.
Within the live food trade there are certain types of fish demanded more often by consumers, particularly smaller and medium-sized fish. According to the book While Stocks Last: The Live Reef Food Fish Trade consumer demand has caused the fish captured on coral reefs to be the most valued fish in the trade. Consumers are important because they are directly purchasing these fish species at restaurants and stores. In addition to these types of fishes, many juvenile fish are used for the live food trade. There are also cultural and regional preferences among consumers, for example, Chinese consumers often prefer their fish to be reddish in color believing the color to be auspicious (Sadovy, Y.J, 393). These preferences inevitably affect the biodiversity of marine life making certain fish species rarer to find.
So that’s your grand idea that on the surface seems so deep
Well maybe you shouldn’t believe everything you think
You’ve got it all figured out but either way you look
It’s been thought of before and no one’s that impressed
Since you’re so keen on sharing your worn out philosophies
Would you lend me the courtesy of letting me share with you?
Open your blind eyes, and fix your broken soul
The ground is spinning with the rest of the world you thought you owned
You clean up so nice and play the perfect role
Inside you’re full of filth and way too short on love
Is that caution to the wind that’s making this nauseous feeling grow?
I can’t help but think it’s your remedy that’s making me sick
The pretension is so thick that you could slice it with a knife
When what you need to taste is this fresh baked humble pie
Now don’t get me wrong I’m all about respect
But I’m losing a little more everyday
For those of you who never get the point
Don’t give me your line about “raised to know better”
And allow me to quote from the red letters
Today I’m going back to the day
When I first called out to your name
Though times have been good
I know that I should be doing more than just wasting away
You’ve baited your hook
With the mercy that you took
And poured out for me
You’re asking me back again
And consequently I’ll answer with a question
With all that you’ve done, you’ve still been there for me
So, will you change my life again?
Look how you took this life that you shook
Into a battle I could finally win
Now it’s so hard to faze me
How your love is so amazing, that you died to take away my sins
You came down to us
And gave up your life
But you never gave up on me
Now I’ve come to the time
When the doubt that’s attacking is seeming so sublime
But I still hear your voice, your still small voice
Shouldn’t you have something else to do?
Some plans of war and peace to wage,
Some cosmic pressing issue to tend to?
Shouldn’t you talk to someone else instead?
Someone who’s maybe more important,
Someone with whom your time is better spent?
You don’t only know me,
But you so understand me
So much more than I understand myself
You want to me, You want to know me
When you put your arms around me and hold me tight
You want to know me, You want to know me
And it blows my mind each time I think of the lengths You went to feel the pain I’ve felt,
You know me better than I know myself.
Aren’t you getting sick and tired of me?
There are people so much more committed
Who show their love for You more lavishly
Wouldn’t you be better off without me?
Because my love can never measure up
To the love you’ve shown me time and time again.
Although you know me
You still want to know me
Despite all my shame and selfish sorrow
Although I know I’m undeserving
And sometimes afraid to show my love
I’ll press day by day, to follow all your ways
You always used to say, you’d always be there to see
Me laugh and fall down, and dance all around
It’s funny how things change.
You’re already home,
When I feel so alone
I feel you touch my hand
And I’m closer than you’ve ever been before
Waving goodbye at the door.
Your smile speaks a thousand words
But your portrait says nothing at all
I’ve tried to say goodbye, before I found my reason why
Your mind’s wandering while the man opens up the word
You’re not hear to worship; you came to come and not to serve
So whatever happened to that excitement in your heart
It seems that thought you’ve drifted just a little bit too far
Sometimes you live to make him proud
But you’ve forgotten what it’s all about
Don’t let me fall away and fade out
Let me hold onto the love you gave to me
I can’t survive If I keep fading out
Set me back and make me see
What you’ve given me
Can you remember when songs were more than words?
Can you remember when in your heart you heard?
The Truth that echoes loud and once were all so clear
Hello heart, where have you been?
We really need to talk, if I could find the conversation
Now in the pale light of my room
I think I see You, I think I see You
So nice to see you smile again
Maybe you never left at all
But I have to say, I’ve been missing myself lately
I was beginning to think that love would never show
Take my hand
You are all that this life’s needing
You are the one who keeps me breathing
Hold me close
I’ll never be alone again
Now that I found a friend like You
Goodbye innocence, who did I think I was?
It seems I had myself wrapped around my finger
Now the advice I used to give can take the fall
So nice to hear you sing again
Maybe you never stopped at all
But I have to say, I’ve been missing myself lately
I was beginning to think that love would never show
You were right here all along
You were right here, always right here
I see the glow from the distant shores
I feel you
Ebb and flow, hear the sighs and moans
I feel you
Reach down, hold me now
Feel me as I feel you
Hold, breath into this life
All the life I’m holding back from you
Your love is written on my soul
A life so simply irresistible
Stained on my heart are words unknown
You’re so mystical
With the tide goes my life,
I feel you
Intertwined, peace of mind,
I feel you
With every breath I accept,
I feel you
In this state of your embrace,
I feel you
I think I see what you’ve been saying all along
I’m believing maybe I can play this song
And play it oh so well, and play it oh so well
Nothings going my way
I’ve been trying for so long to escape
Inside I scream without a sound
I’ve been wanting so bad to be found
But you so loved me
That you gave your only son
Now I’m ready to fight this war
Because I know the battle’s already been won
Past times that never last long
Memories that once were weak are now so strong
Whatever happened to my peace
I feel so unworthy to be set free
My closest friends are moving on
I’m left in the shadows away from the sun
No one else can know my pain
Maybe it’s the way the sun fills the sky
The wind blowing through my hair on a summer night
Creation Speaks to me, it’s the voice that sets me free
It’s a peace that never dies
Maybe it’s the smell of the pouring rain
The power of the crashing waves
Creation sings a song, to this world that we belong
It sings of power that saves
All Heaven declares Your power
All the earth proclaims Your glory
All creation sings of Your beauty
Revealing more of Your love
It sings holy, mighty, beautiful
Glory, majesty, holy is the Lord
Maybe it’s the wander of a shooting star
A newborn baby in a mother’s arms
The way the river flows, it’s a mystery that grows
Here I stand, in the middle of this empty stage
Dreaming of some better way
To bring this thought, to bring this song to You
To You, without me
And I play, though the message seems so wrong
As if I don’t belong, to this fiction world I am living
This important point I’m missing, it’s You
It’s You, not me
Perfect melody, take this glory from me
It sounds so heavenly, what You’re spinning
How can I sing to a world
When I’m too busy dancing?
Where’s my place, will you put me there
And blind me with Your beautiful light?
Who I am, is less significant than it seems
If I could only wait patiently
To feel You move around me,
With my every breath that’s screaming of You
I see the glow from the distant shores
I feel you
Ebb and flow, hear the sighs and moans
I feel you
Reach down, hold me now
Feel me as I feel you
Hold, breath into this life
All the life I’m holding back from you
Your love is written on my soul
A life so simply irresistible
Stained on my heart are words unknown
You’re so mystical
With the tide goes my life,
I feel you
Intertwined, peace of mind,
I feel you
With every breath I accept,
I feel you
In this state of your embrace,
I feel you
I think I see what you’ve been saying all along
I’m believing maybe I can play this song
And play it oh so well, and play it oh so well
And play it oh so well
The loneliness comes, I’m in this place again
Looking for some peace of mind in anything I can
I can’t shake this feeling and I don’t know why
So my heart and I run and hide hanging onto my pride
I’m wandering aimlessly without a plan
Lost in the dark, cause I let go of Your hand
I’m feeling so weak, that I can’t even stand
Why don’t I fall down and reach out for Your hand?
I’m falling under, that crashing waves of sin
I can’t overcome these ways that I’ve been living in
My desperation screams that “I’m running out of time”
Just give me the answers Lord, and in this life of mine