Re: [APD] Re: USDA/Fish and Game

["S. Hieber" <shieber at yahoo_com>]

Or maybe we just need to read the actual rule that's being
applied.

sh
--- Bill D <billinet at comcast_net> wrote:

> "This application for Neritina natalensis is denied. This
> organism is an
> exotic organism, that does not occur in the destination
> state."
> 
> If that rule is accurately stated by the bureaucrat who
> responded, I guess
> is now illegal to import ANY fish from tropical climates.
>  No more wild
> discus, no more altums, no more clown loaches.  Unless,
> of course, there are
> already existing populations in the state for which they
> are intended.
> 
> I wonder if it could mean that a Florida fish farm
> couldn't ship tropicals
> to, say, Maine?
> 
> On the other hand, it would be legal to import hydrilla
> to just about
> anywhere, since it occurs in (probably) all states.
> 
> Sometimes I wonder how our government functions as well
> as it does.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
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