I agree that it would not be good to have more than one census. But ideally THE census should at least include the City and Country in which the stock was held and the ability (restricted to members of the Paro project) to contact that person through this site’s Private Message facility. Currently some of those paro friends responding to the census may have different Paro Project ‘Names’.
I have no quarrel with the current ‘Searching for fish’ facility, but it would not necessarily help me identify, for example, how many species may be available to me within an hours drive from Hamburg on a given day if I was planning to visit with the aim of bringing back stock for other UK based Paro friends.
How fantastic would it be to have a ‘living’ (Real Time)census, where I could note, for example, last nights spawning of my P. Linkei 😉
and track their development through to numbers of juveniles and then distribution? Again, this is not meant to detract from the importance of our twice yearly census, but rather to reinforce both the urgency of our projects aims and ambitions, and the successes that we enjoy.
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