Nafbg

[Sir Sauce]

I have heard conflicting stories about the demise of the North American Fish Breeders Guild. I loved those days of swapping fish with like minded people. I never minded paying big bucks for fish, but to get such great stock at the price of a trade was fantastic. What happened while I got a life? Is it defunct? long hiatus? burned to the ground with no hope of rising fom the ashes?


Mike C.

 

[tjudy]

The NAFBG is defunct and there is little hope of it returning. There were apparently some issues involving ethics and money, though I do not know the specifics and would not want to guess. As far as interest in reestablishing the club goes, I am sure that there would be a ton of people willing to get fish from other people for free. How would you organize it to keep out the losers who would abuse it though (which is a part of why the original NAFBG fell apart). It only takes a few bad apples to spoil the barrel.

 

[Sir Sauce]

Thanks for the reply. Sad to hear about the doubt of it or something like it returning. I did get screwed a couple of times and heard far worse horror stories. But, I used to always just view it as karmic. I would never send huge amounts of fish to anyone that I didn't know(of). And, in the scheme of things, losing out on under twenty shipping and a few pairs of fish that I usually couldn't give away locally, to not have to deal with a crook again is a bargain.
The culling of the bad apples? Difficult, agreed. But I still want to believe that there are good honest people who aren't trying to get rich off every spawn. I know I gave away far more fish than I ever sold. And I have had some great people give me fish by the tankfulls.
Maybe, someday ,a mutant offspring will arise. I can still hope!