I don't know a tremendous amount about the asian arowana regulations, but what i do have to say is if some group caught 4 wild ones ( 2 male. 2 female. ) Then started a breeding group from there and worked on releasing them into heavily guarded natural ponds ( with federal backing of course) and lakes. In a good amount of years you would have a steady flow of new blood to reintroduce into the natural unguarded habitats. (Only after evaluating the safest areas free from any future industrial or federal waterway projects.)
That being said. If the ban were to be lifted as i believe someone stated before, home breeders in the US would pope up everywhere. Then as with all new or rare hard to breed fish, a few great keepers would get it down to a science. (Now i'm not saying that it's a must) but the government could reapply the ban after being notified of this consistence of captive breeding. There by halting any unsavory characters bringing wild one over. Some one also mentioned how in Asia the water ways are being tampered with and this is highly effecting the numbers of the wild Asian arowana. If that is true then keeping the ban or lifting the ban without well planned aggressive breeding projects would have no effect on their wild numbers at all. Mainly because their really enemy seems to be the decline of or assault on there home water ways. Meaning the number will eventually either say the same or decline even more.
Now going back to the theoretical *master* Asian arowana breeders in the US. They would obviously keep the price tags extremely high for a while and you might see a selling pattern similar to flower horns or sting rays where the breeding is focused on the shape, patterns, color ex that you wont normally if ever see in the wild, there for the prices would rarely drop that low. What draw most Americans to the Asian arowana seems to usually be ( this is from here say ), " oh the amazing colors." " Those perfect shaped fins." "They get such great color variants. " Common, even some experienced fish keepers will normally go for the more flashy fish but dont always wanna pay the price. (True fish geeks) on the other hand, will gladly scratch and save for that perfect wild specimen or wild lookalike. To them purity really matures.
all im trying to say here is i dont know why some people stand by the ban and just worry that the lift of the ban will negatively effect the wild numbers. how ever i don't hear of anyone making a solid plan on how to increase those number in their present endangered position.Then i also hear of people who want to lift the ban, but they have no plan either to make sure the new US Asian Arowana generations stay strong and can be controlled so at some point we no longer need any more imports. ... These are just a few of the more important convos i think we should be having rather then. " When are they gonna lift the ban???! "
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