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I am an involuntary aquarium owner: my daughter wanted fish, and I'm the only one in the family responsible enough to take care of them. The last time we went to get new fish, my kids picked red wag platies; I love these fish, and they've got great personality, but had I known they were live bearers, I wouldn't have touched them with a ten-foot pole. However, I didn't know that, and so here we are.... "Here" in this case is lots and lots of fry. For some reason, be it lack of aggressive fish in the tank, or dense planting, or multiple decorations, a lot of babies are surviving, including about a dozen from the first brood alone. At this point, I may have 30 or more, at different stages of development, in the tank, on top of the two adults, three neon tetras, and a bristlenose pleco. That's obviously too many fish for a 10-gallon tank, especially since the oldest fry are now about half an inch long. Where can I find a home for these fish? I don't want to see them end up as feeders: I don't have a deep emotional attachment to them, but I don't want creatures I've raised ending up as food. I've read some people sell them to local pet stores, but I don't even know what store I'd approach around here (I'm in Springfield); at any rate, I don't really care about getting money for them.

https://apnews.com/a32001b680bb4a2300bc01f70f756a65 HONOLULU (AP) — A state board has rejected an environmental impact statement submitted by a group seeking permits for commercial aquarium fishing around Hawaii island. The Board of Land and Natural Resources voted Friday to reject the statement of more than 2,000 pages submitted by 10 West Hawaii aquarium fishers and the National Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. The aquarium fishers can proceed with their attempts to obtain permits by revising the impact statement or appealing the board’s decision. The Hawaii Supreme Court halted aquarium fishing in September 2017 by ruling fish collection without environmental review violates the Hawaii Environmental Policy Act. No permits have been issued since then for the West Hawaii Regional Fishery Management Area, the focus of the environmental impact statement. Before permits can be declared valid, the industry must prove the commercial operations can capture fish from the waters around Hawaii for aquarium sales without harming the environment, fish stock levels, reefs, or related cultural practices. A lack of data regarding the number of fish that would be taken was of particular concern to the board in its rejection of the statement, board chairperson Suzanne Case said. “The fact that there are really no limits on the number of fish that can be taken I think is very, very challenging. I don’t know how you analyze impacts when you don’t know how many fish will be taken out,” Case said. The board rejected a similar environmental impact statement by the National Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council in July 2018.