I've heard that Brazil is really cutting back on fish exports. I was thinking that 95% to 99.9% of the Black Arowana that are available for sale in the aquarium trade are still wild caught. If I had to guess, I'd say that the majority of Silver Arowanas are still wild caught as well. I may not be correct. That's just my humble opinion. I also can remember seeing a baby Silver Arowana at a "big box" pet store that was $9.99. That first Black Arowana that I had was about $12 or $15.00 in 1987 when it FINALLY came in on a special order. I waited about 3-4 months on that fish. The funny part of the story is the aquarium store I got it from was a mom and pop kind of store.The man that owned it was a butcher by trade and half the store was a meat market, and the other half was an aquarium shop. Seriously, you can't make up a story that weird! I've been hooked on big ,mean, toothy critters ever since.