View Full Version : US Aro Smuggler Caught!!!!!
Gr8KarmaSF
05-02-2009, 12:56 PM
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/breaking/story/694132.html
:popcorn:
benzjamin13
05-02-2009, 1:04 PM
Sucks for him:grinno:
Camshaft Ramrod
05-02-2009, 1:05 PM
Good thing I got mine from him when I did.
jk....
Dwarf Puffers
05-02-2009, 1:21 PM
Wow, 20 years? That's more than you get for murder in canada. Which is oh so very sad.
Yanbbrox
05-02-2009, 2:45 PM
20 years, £1/4 mil fine:WHOA:
cichlaguapote
05-02-2009, 2:49 PM
dingo (http://www.charlotteobserver.com/personas?plckUserId=742ba0160382fd0851db89e9439527 2b-2316208&insiteUserId=742ba0160382fd0851db89e94395272b-2316208) wrote on 04/29/2009 11:33:34 AM:
He'd be better off smuggling drugs than fish, apparently.
Too true..
he will get probation............and a fine
Hilltopperpete
05-02-2009, 2:50 PM
That's just dumb. None of those fish are wild caught anyways-- they're all farm raised for ornamental purposes. The US Government is stupid to ban farm-raised Asian Arowanas-- if they they opened the borders on Asian Arowanas with the stipulation that X number of Asian Arowanas were reintroduced to the wild, farms would most definitely give up a few batches to the wild if they could sell to America's 300 milllion people.
Use economic incentives to make changes-- not prohibitions. Yeesh...
justwinbb
05-02-2009, 2:57 PM
I am very new to this site but I have a qeustion about asian arowana's. Obviously there must be some in this country pre ban so are there laws preventing people from selling or trading them?
ctjlm1088
05-02-2009, 2:59 PM
wow thats crazy!
That's just dumb. None of those fish are wild caught anyways-- they're all farm raised for ornamental purposes. The US Government is stupid to ban farm-raised Asian Arowanas-- if they they opened the borders on Asian Arowanas with the stipulation that X number of Asian Arowanas were reintroduced to the wild, farms would most definitely give up a few batches to the wild if they could sell to America's 300 milllion people.
Use economic incentives to make changes-- not prohibitions. Yeesh...
i agree :D
FL2008
05-02-2009, 7:25 PM
hahaha that's The US :D
Tstove15
05-02-2009, 8:03 PM
do you think he was doing it for the money? or just for personal satisfication with having the fish?....I think he problay would have sold the corals and kept the aro lol
bfhslilred93
05-02-2009, 8:11 PM
please dont start the debate on how the us government is stupid and how asian aros should be legal in the us i dont have the energy for it again
Eleven Bravo
05-02-2009, 8:54 PM
yet drug dealers/smugglers get a slap on the risk :(
wow i wonder what happens if you smuggle 1 haha
Tstove15
05-02-2009, 9:39 PM
please dont start the debate on how the us government is stupid and how asian aros should be legal in the us i dont have the energy for it again
haha amen
zerojquan85
05-02-2009, 9:59 PM
Asian legal in US.. old news.. too much debate over it.... but nice to know someone got caught for it..
perfect_prefect
05-02-2009, 11:12 PM
I am very new to this site but I have a qeustion about asian arowana's. Obviously there must be some in this country pre ban so are there laws preventing people from selling or trading them?
to the best of my knowledge when something is banned IF IT IS grandfather claused, then you can keep it yourself, but you cannot transport it across state lines sell or trade it.
xdragonxb0i
05-05-2009, 12:58 AM
That's just dumb. None of those fish are wild caught anyways-- they're all farm raised for ornamental purposes. The US Government is stupid to ban farm-raised Asian Arowanas-- if they they opened the borders on Asian Arowanas with the stipulation that X number of Asian Arowanas were reintroduced to the wild, farms would most definitely give up a few batches to the wild if they could sell to America's 300 milllion people.
Use economic incentives to make changes-- not prohibitions. Yeesh...
if they allow farms to sell aros to the US, them people will still catch wild Asians, tag them and sell them.
people from canada and europe buy aros from Farms, not by poachers. So in a way by restricting sell to the US, Poachers who take wild aros, have a smaller market to sell.
rey420
05-05-2009, 1:14 AM
i agree with the post above, but i still want one...... by any means necessary!!!!!!!!!!............lol.............
fsirico
05-05-2009, 1:40 AM
I dont agree Its to much work to go out and catch wild aro's when their breeding them in their ponds now. dose'nt make sense. U.S. needs to lift the bill. It's about that time already. It's soooo old. No one else bans but us. Legalize it and it would probably help our econemy lol. They need to find something else to chase after!
beblondie
05-05-2009, 1:41 AM
Ahem,
Yes asian arrows were grandfathered in unlike snakeheads but they would be 33 years old now and no they couldn't be sold or traded by the orginal owners.
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