But several animals including tropical fish, parrots, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs died.
Choose the right "Fish Spa" package and you walk away with a free tropical fish and an extra souvenir.
All of this occurs in front of a seemingly unrelated tropical fish background.
Pity the thousands of expensive tropical fish who died along the way as a Singapore family tried to figure out fish-farming.
In the town square were two gourmet restaurants as well as a local-wine merchant and a pet store specializing in tropical fish.
It sits in the middle of the Japan current, a nutrient-rich stream that feeds a stunning variety of crustaceans, tropical fish and other sealife.
Singapore accounts for a third of the world's tropical fish market.
Today, 25 years after it began, Qian Hu Corp. is one of the biggest exporters of tropical fish in the world and operates 12 stores around Asia.
His boat tour includes stops at Kanawa and Angel Islands -- on the edge of Komodo National Park -- where sugar-white beaches are surrounded by turquoise waters in which coral and tropical fish are abundant.
Just over two years after the Japan earthquake and tsunami, researchers made a startling discovery in a 20-foot-long Japanese fishing vessel that washed ashore last month near Long Beach, Washington: five tropical fish, alive and well.
But what really separates Qian Hu from the many mom-and-pop businesses of the tropical-fish-farming industry is the attention paid to safely shipping such a fragile creature to customers overseas.
Speaking on the science of blue carbon, Miguel Cifuentes, CATIE, Costa Rica, warned of the significant amounts of carbon emissions released through the destruction of coastal habitats, land use conversions and upstream disruptions, saying that coastal ecosystems maintain 75% of all tropical commercial fish species through their role as nurseries.
The Ehrlichs are correct that some trends deserve worry: soil erosion, degradation of tropical forests, fish depletion, the loss of farmland, to mention some of the most serious.
Lots of easy movements, beach strolling, swimming, hiking, daily yoga or Pilates, yummy fresh local selections, lots of tropical fruits and vegetables, grilled fish or chicken, nothing complicated.
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It mainly happens to people who have eaten imported fish, or who have returned from holidays to tropical countries.
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