Re: [Killietalk] Killietalk Digest, Vol 56, Import reg absurdities

[Joseph Scanlan <drkillinut at mac_com>]

Typical of the "Bureaucrats with Power Syndrome".  Here in Alabama we  
lose wet-lands every day and our creeks and wetlands are a few of the  
only things we can brag about.       Joe

On Mar 11, 2008, at 3:05 PM, apistomaster at excite_com wrote:

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> We have been discussing the inane regulations to preserve species  
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> Another example is the farmed Asian Arowanas.  These are  
> deliberately farm raised for popular color varieties and with  
> stipulations that they release a certain portion of their  
> production back to the wild are forbidden to be imported despite  
> the embedding of identifying tags in the fish sold for aquarium  
> use. Apparently as a CITIES listed fish it makes no difference that  
> they are farmed fish with documented pedigrees, they are still  
> considered contraband.
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