Does MAC certification really mean anything?

[jerseyguy1996]

I am on my second Foxface Rabbitfish from Absolutely Fish, a supposedly MAC certified LFS, that was fine for about a month and a half and then went downhill overnight and died. I have 3 other fishy inhabitants that are perfectly fine that have been in the tank since it started. From what I have read after a few google searches it seems to me that the symptoms are consistent with cyanide poisoning. Does MAC certification really mean anything, I mean can the importer really have any idea regarding the methods under which their fish are caught?

[Fly Guy]

Its a joke as far as I can tell. To be sure I claim to know nothing. But the little bit of reading I have done on the subject brings me to that conclusion.

The only thing that retailers can do in an honest effort of promoting non cyanide caught fish is to only buy or import from sources where cyanide is supposedly not used such as tonga, fiji, and hawaii for example and avoid all stuff fromt he philipines and indonesia