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The fish collectors hoping to save rare species from extinction phantom wallet In the rural town of Petersham Massachusetts 78-year-old Peter George keeps 1000 fish in his basement. “Baseball sex fish” he says listing his life’s great loves. “My single greatest attribute is that I am passionate about things. That sort of defines me.” All of George’s fish are endangered Rift Lake cichlids: colorful freshwater fish native to the Great Lakes of East Africa. Inside his 42 tanks expertly squeezed into a single subterranean room the fish shimmer under artificial lights knowing nothing of the expansive waters in which their ancestors once swam thousands of miles away. Due to pollution climate change and overfishing freshwater fish are thought to be the second most endangered vertebrates in the world. In Lake Victoria a giant lake shared between Kenya Uganda and Tanzania over a quarter of endemic species including countless cichlids are either critically endangered or extinct. But for some species there is still hope. A community of rare fish enthusiasts collect endangered species of freshwater fish from the lakes and springs of East Africa Mexico and elsewhere and preserve them in their personal fish tanks in the hope that they might one day be reintroduced in the wild. “I’m a hard ass” George says. “There is hope.” Insurance George has been collecting fish since 1948 when as a four-year-old in the Bronx he would look after his grandmother’s rainbow fish. He soon developed “multiple tank syndrome” – a colloquial term used by fish collectors to denote the spiral commonly experienced after acquiring one’s first tank which involves the sufferer buying many more tanks within a short space of time. He has not stopped collecting since. Now George sees himself as a conservationist; his tanks contain what is known as “insurance populations” – populations of endangered fish that are likely to go extinct in their natural habitats. He believes that when the time is right they can be taken from his collection and returned to their homes. “I would never accept the fact that they couldn’t be reintroduced” he says.