View Full Version : what is done with the fish
lookyloo
04-03-2006, 3:40 PM
here a question for all those who has some against asian arowanas
if and when a asian is seized from someone what happens to the fish? i personally know people who work at the international airport and was told that many times the employees just to keep them
I think they are disposed of in the trash.
Atleast that is what they do with Pirhanas here in WA. Wait a day or two, then throw them in the dumpster :(
bad93ex
04-03-2006, 4:38 PM
That's kind of dumb why dont they give them to a local aquarium?
rook45
04-03-2006, 4:50 PM
That's kind of dumb why dont they give them to a local aquarium?
:iagree:
Even public aquariums need permits, and they are difficult for even them to get (which sux too)
Zoodiver
04-03-2006, 4:59 PM
US F&W confiscations get allocated to institutions with the correct paperwork to take on the animal in question. None get passed on to private owners and none get put down unless they absolutely have to.
Most Zoos and Aquariums work very closely with local gov't authorities in this respect. I was on a first name basis with several of the locals in Texas while working there. I was even called in to ID fish in question from time to time. It's midn boggling how many things need paper work. Even "legal" animals in the US may need some random form to be transported across the line. We got a lot of African cichlids that way. 99% of the time, there is an institution willing to take them legally.
As for Asian Aros, we had the permit for the at the Dallas World Aquarium, so we housed dozens (in all size ranges). As an example: F&W had a line on a guy who kept trying over and over.....we must have pulled 50 or so from him over several months. It was a person who was bragging about it in an online forum, so it made it easy to find him. A lot of ours came from attempts at bringing them in from Mexico, but we did get some coming into Cali from various Asian Islands.
Honda12
04-03-2006, 5:02 PM
Thats crazy I didn't know that people would try to smuggle them in, in that amount of numbers.
Zoodiver
04-03-2006, 5:04 PM
He would try to bring them in about 6 or 8 at a time.
bad93ex
04-03-2006, 5:04 PM
That is good to hear that they try to do something with them.
WyldFya
04-03-2006, 5:26 PM
US F&W confiscations get allocated to institutions with the correct paperwork to take on the animal in question. None get passed on to private owners and none get put down unless they absolutely have to.
Most Zoos and Aquariums work very closely with local gov't authorities in this respect. I was on a first name basis with several of the locals in Texas while working there. I was even called in to ID fish in question from time to time. It's midn boggling how many things need paper work. Even "legal" animals in the US may need some random form to be transported across the line. We got a lot of African cichlids that way. 99% of the time, there is an institution willing to take them legally.
As for Asian Aros, we had the permit for the at the Dallas World Aquarium, so we housed dozens (in all size ranges). As an example: F&W had a line on a guy who kept trying over and over.....we must have pulled 50 or so from him over several months. It was a person who was bragging about it in an online forum, so it made it easy to find him. A lot of ours came from attempts at bringing them in from Mexico, but we did get some coming into Cali from various Asian Islands.
What a dumb@$$!!! That would be like bragging to a cop that your about to rob a bank just before you did.
water_baby83
04-03-2006, 6:06 PM
What a dumb@$$!!! That would be like bragging to a cop that your about to rob a bank just before you did.
LOL I know, but it really does happen!! You'd be surprised at just how many illegal traders are caught that way.
--Emi
WyldFya
04-03-2006, 7:09 PM
perhaps not only the fish we keep are imbred... not that I am trying to imply anything here.
Smuggling endangered species is for people who want to be kicked in the nuts
WyldFya
04-04-2006, 9:24 PM
Smuggling endangered species is for people who want to be kicked in the nuts
:nutkick:
dovii88
04-04-2006, 9:54 PM
i just wish they were legall..we need to make a patition and get everyone on mfk to sign it and then maybe we could get them imported legally to the us without permits
ewurm
04-04-2006, 10:25 PM
They should be donated for the MFK raffle, we could have like 300 raffles a month!
rottbo
04-05-2006, 12:30 AM
a petition will not take them off of the CITES list and will not change the US standing on enforcing all CITES policies
Keeper of Sharks
04-05-2006, 1:06 AM
Zoodiver is correct in saying that,”Most Zoos and Aquariums work very closely with local gov't authorities…”. I know several of the large aquariums in San Diego get confiscated aquatic animals a few times a year. They last few I know of were wrong species shipped with out the correct permit to the dealer and the other was more animals than the permit allowed. Then there were all the gobies in the film containers that were being smuggled across the US/Mex border. It’s just sad to see the waste and the destruction that takes place. I guess it’s the darker side to our hobby?
sam_cj
04-05-2006, 1:12 AM
They should be donated for the MFK raffle, we could have like 300 raffles a month!
:thumbsup:
Opiate
04-05-2006, 1:44 AM
mmm...it's no good at all...