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Old 08-20-2005   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by woodyaht
I think another thing that US breeders are at fault over is they don't have the passion that the Japanese do. Maurice is the only person that I have seen that has a goal. The US breeders seem to want to produce "koi", but they aren't going for the high end market. They want to have their sales tanks full of pretty, colorful fish to sell to the family that shows up to the farm on a Sat. with their children saying we want to buy some koi for our 200gal. pond.


The Japanese definatly have a passion, they want to produce beauty, not we have a special on pumps and UV's today, and we have beautiful koi to sell you too
I dont think it's a passion issue, but more of a money issue...Some of these Breeders in Japan inherit the family farm and the breeders here are starting up from scratch. I am sure if US breeders had the money to back up the breeding programs where it is suppose to be, their would be no issue...
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