Today's, Daily Telegraph (the Sydney one!) had a piece entitled: "New pet
trend gallops in".

I ain't going to type it out in it's entirety, but it relates to a new
'trend' in keeping seahorses as pets!!!!!

Details can be seen at: http://www.oceanoddities.com/

Snippets from the article reveal that certain cultures regard the seahorse
as, "a cure-all for almost everything from headaches to cancer, and also
believed .. (to be) .. an aphrodisiac. ...The Chinese use between 20 million
and 40 million a year."

And

"It is estimated that between half and a third of all the seahorses in the
world are found in Australia."

They must be dying out judging by the number that we haven't seen at Shelly
Beach!  :-)

Strike