Growing up in O’Leary, P.E.I., Andrea Reid says she studied every National Geographic she could get her hands on. Now the society behind the magazine is funding her PhD research.

Reid, a National Geographic explorer, is working on a project called Reef to Aquarium. It looks at ways of making the aquarium trade more sustainable, she told Mainstreet‘s Angela Walker.

“It’s often demonized in the media with a lot of attention on the use of cyanide and harmful fishing practices for collecting aquarium fish,” she said.

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Original Source: CBC February 21, 2018

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