Steve, your not telling the entire story however? It was the Robinson driven organization that lead the charge. What happened to 'him' and the validity of that initial program? Remember?
This situation is Soo different than chinese merchants giving cyanide to the locals for fish collection and then taking money for net collecting- it just no longer becomes an analogy.
awareness? what the hell does THAT mean? The person buying the already 'dead fish swimming' hasn't a clue the fish has been collected with deadly poison and is swimminga round with no internal function organs other than gills and a heart. So awareness is NOT education.
Educating the beginenr marine hobbyist to the fish to avoid, the signs of cyanide posioning, the right questions to ask the dealer and the request to hold the fish for two weeks with a small deposit are the ways to go.
This is more about power and politics than it is education. By the way, did Robinson ever go to jail or pay back the missing monies?
JR