Fish travel

[GaryE]

Let's play a game. If you had free time and a decent budget, and could go anywhere on the planet to look for fish to bring back, where would you go?

As a fishing tourist, you'd have places to stay and transportation, and as a fisher, you'd have health, strength and energy. What one region would your imagination and curiosity take you to, and why?

 

[Magnum Man]

I honestly have no desire for international travel, but to play the game.. the bulk of my fish are from the Amazon area, however I can't take the heat, and am not a fan of mosquitos so I'd be more likely heading out to a more temperate climate like Hillstream country

 

[FranciscoB]

I would like to go to Guyana, and to the Bolivian/Peruvian Amazonia.

 

[gwand]

I would travel to Lake Tanganyika in search of the insular dwarf Submu Altolamprologus compressiceps.

 

[MaloK]

Scuba diving in the Indo-Pacific region, especially the coral triangle.

But I wouldn't be fishing nor take anything back.

 

[MattW]

I'd like to try looking for Native species in Queensland or northern NSW. Another option is Mexico and Goodeid fish. I've never been fond of liverbarers, but after reading up and watching videos on Goodeid's, I now like them

 

[Back in the fold]

India , specifically the Malabar coast , to see Aplocheilus lineatus in their native habitat . After that , up into northern India to find Dwarf Gourami’s and Zebra Danio’s in their native habitat . That is if these habitats still exist .

 

[TwoTankAmin]

I have everything except for one thing needed in the OP to have been able to go wherever I might have wanted. What I lacked was the good health. I smoked for 45+ years before I quit about 14 years ago. Mty reward was COPD. I would drown trying to explore the place I would choose.

My destination would be the Big Bend of the Rio Xingu in Brazil. Since April 2006 I have been keeping and breeding a number of the Hypancistrus from that region. Fortunately, over the years I have been able to sit in on presentations by people who have been there as well as talk to them. I have watched number of vids as well. I was even given a piece of the rock common to that area by someone who has been there multiple times. It still sits in the last pleco breeding tank I still have going.

I have been able to do the next best thing and that is to have had the opportunity and the wherewithal to have been able to keep and breed the fish I did. This has opened a few doors for me to meet some great folks and to get the fish I bred into the hands of many others who wanted to do so. It has also payed for all my hobby costs and even allowed me to donate to some organizations who sponsor events for fish keepers and which are involved in either research and/or species/habitat preservation.

So all-in-all, I really cannot complain but I can still wish.