Longnoses being farmed in asia?

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pharmaecopia

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Over the weekend I spotted some longnoses at a local store. Roughly 4" long, labelled as Asian Longnose gar. Given the size I can't see them being wild caught. As well given the common name they used I'd imagine that they came in from an Asian farm.

Anybody else heard about farms producing longnoses?
 
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karaig19 said:
possibly im pretty sure there is no asain species though could have labled that to obtain more money.
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fwprawn said:
They probably are Xenetodon cancila.
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They are true longnose gars. Not Asian needlenose gars. I probably should have also pointed out that this store routinely gets in small floridas labelled as Asian spotted gars. It is more than likely their source that had them named this way. Either way they are not the most reliable for names.
 
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well, Thailand can breed Arapaima and I believe they can do the same thing with gars!
 
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hey Kevin,

from my understanding they have been producing FLGs and LNGs in Asia for the past half decade or so...give or take. i wouldn't be surprised if they are producing other species of gars as well, but other than the TPG, CBG, ALG they have already been working with, a couple more species are not out of the question/realm of possibility. usually if you see YOY gars available in the NAmerican "off season" it's a good indication that they are farmed elsewhere--
--solomon
 
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E_americanus said:
hey Kevin,

from my understanding they have been producing FLGs and LNGs in Asia for the past half decade or so...give or take. i wouldn't be surprised if they are producing other species of gars as well, but other than the TPG, CBG, ALG they have already been working with, a couple more species are not out of the question/realm of possibility. usually if you see YOY gars available in the NAmerican "off season" it's a good indication that they are farmed elsewhere--
--solomon
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Interesting, up to this point most of the longnoses I've been able to track down have come in with wild florida shipments. Even out of what I see available in the states most seem to originate in the states, hence why I was curious about these gars.

I find it interesting that I only really see large longnoses in asian collection if they are being bread out there.
 
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pharmaecopia said:
Interesting, up to this point most of the longnoses I've been able to track down have come in with wild florida shipments. Even out of what I see available in the states most seem to originate in the states, hence why I was curious about these gars.

I find it interesting that I only really see large longnoses in asian collection if they are being bread out there.
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keep in mind "farmed" is a broad term...they could very easily be importing large LNGs from the states and then strip-spawning adults to get the young...not a hard thing to do with the proper space and resources--
--SRD
 
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