Help To Bring Asian Aros Back To The US...

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Its us the fish keepers, makes exotic fishes go extinct. Yes they have captive breeding programs but they dont look at it this way

plus, theu convicted n put people in jail for smuggling asaim aros. If they change theaw around, it means overturning their conviction

im pretty sure theres a blk market out there but its just not worth It course. Hopefully, they will become abundant one day.
 
I do hope someday that Asian aro's will be allowed back into the U.S

I would understand if the Aro's was still critically endangered but they are being bred by the millions in farms all across asia every year !
 
the problem is that the USA law is making them look at the numbers in the wild. not on the farms. and they would want some assurance that conservation would be helped by the move. sure, breeding on farm slows wild capture, but also there are hardly any left in the wild too.
so how do you do manage to convince them that the move to legal trade would aid conservation of the species?
 
you can probably go as far as trying to restock the wild at great cost and it wont actually result in populations establishing. then also, youd want true to type colours in the original areas too. do you maybe propose increased conservation efforts on things like greens? because they are still around?
also, maybe one day a new and proper assessment will be done on wild stocks so they can go forth.
i dont think they have really done a recent study into this kind of thing.
 
Wiggles92 said:
I still believe that Canada handles this matter appropriately by requiring them to have official paperwork as well as a microchip.
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In Canada our weather is different and aro can't survive if we release it in local river. Unlike US some of the state weather is hot year round and people might release it into there local river and it could ruin their local habitat. So I don't think the law care about extinct but more like local habitat and more money for Asian farm in return they can only collect a little tax on it. So from the law point of view there is no benefit in it.
 
hondas3000 said:
In Canada our weather is different and aro can't survive if we release it in local river. Unlike US some of the state weather is hot year round and people might release it into there local river and it could ruin their local habitat. So I don't think the law care about extinct but more like local habitat and more money for Asian farm in return they can only collect a little tax on it. So from the law point of view there is no benefit in it.
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Those are some good points. It might work out better if they let a few dozen be brought in to start a U.S. farm in a northern state; that solves both the issue of the government making money and the reintroduction issue (to an extent).
 
I dont think anyone is going to dump fish that costs a few thousand dollars into a river..
 
hondas3000 said:
In Canada our weather is different and aro can't survive if we release it in local river. Unlike US some of the state weather is hot year round and people might release it into there local river and it could ruin their local habitat. So I don't think the law care about extinct but more like local habitat and more money for Asian farm in return they can only collect a little tax on it. So from the law point of view there is no benefit in it.
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AttackFish said:
I dont think anyone is going to dump fish that costs a few thousand dollars into a river..
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yeah, only stupid people will dump those fish into a river! beside temperature under 60F is a dead point for most of arowana! some creek in Texas and Florida may stay warm above 60 degree during the winter but those are mostly gar territories and/or very dirty!
 
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