Is it REALLY necessary to blind them? Could you not control the entrance
of light into the experimental chambers? I managed to do so extremely
successfully for a different group of marine animals which were then
released at the end of the experimental period, totally unharmed (at
least apparently so). That seems to me like a lot more feasible, and
kind, that what you are contemplating doing.

Patricia Almada-Villela

In message <[log in to unmask]>, Ian Quittner
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>Dear fish ecologists:
>
>There really is no delicate way to ask this....... What is the most
>"compassionate" way to blind small fish for feeding experiments?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ian Quittner
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Co-Chair, IUCN SSC
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