expensive fish

hello all,
      just pondering through some old chat sites
and thought i would respond to some of the
remarks left by fish keepers,as everyone in this
business knows,you will never please everyone
so the two negative remarks i have found i will
not respond to,however the biggest gripe you
seem to have[or some people have]is the cost of
Japanese fish,the actual cost of these has doubled
in the last few years and it is not down to the
breeders like ourselves they have no control over
the value of the pound,5yrs ago we where getting
220 to the pound,now we are getting 120 to the
 pound,and as freight is paid in yen you can see
where the cost is.
   one of the remarks from our survey is why don't
we do Israeli koi,like we used to,well the answer
is for next year we will bring some in,it is fair to say
when we used to bring them in they where very
nice fish for the money,so due to request we will
try and see if the demand is there,yes due to exch
values and shipping costs they will be a lot cheaper
but as we will not buy lower quality fish we cannot
say what the cost difference will be so watch this
space,
  we are also bringing into play a limited amount of
pet supplies into the store[again due to results of the
survey]so if there is anything in particular you would
like please ask,
  as winter is well and truly around the corner lets
see if next year we can bring some common sense
back into koi keeping,and lets buy fish because we
like them and not because the so called experts say
that is the style or pattern you should be buying,
hope to be a bit more regular with the blog from now
on but there again i never seem to have much time,
that freight train called life just seems to get faster and
faster,and i blink and 3 weeks has passed,
  regards to you all,
      paul teesside koi