Anyone ever been caught with an illegal asian aro?

[PoopSmart]

I was just wondering because everyone throws all these statistics around about them being illegal and how harsh the punishments are.

I pictured in my head a swat team group of people, but instead of SWAT written across their shirts it reads, "US Fish and Wildlife Service" and they are armed with nets, buckets and siphons. They kick down the door and rondezvous at the fishtank. Then they read you your rights while filling the bucket and try to finagle the big fish in with their nets.

This is where I get confused, do they give you jail time? A fine? A slap on the wrist? Do they ask you to tell the name of the dealer in order to get yourself off the hook? Is there an illegal arowana tip line that citizens can call to report the misdeed?

Seriously, I just want to know how they go about this, and if you had experience with it feel free to enlighten us all.

 

[rallysman]

I remember reading a thread not too long ago about someone who got a hefty fine and possible jail time. I'll try to dig it up.

 

[PoopSmart]

Thanks rallysman, I am just really interested in reading a sort of police report or something about this. It sure isn't something you would see everyday.

 

[rallysman]

Thanks rallysman, I am just really interested in reading a sort of police report or something about this. It sure isn't something you would see everyday.

Not worth risking becoming an example of either.

 

[PoopSmart]

Definitely not, but for the purposes of educating everyone on it, I would just want some people to step forward and maybe share what happened.

Here is what I found about some asians being snuck into australia. This is very sad, but they are the strictest of all continents due to their quarantine act set up to preserve their natural wildlife. Steve Irwin was basically the face of that. I recall how strict they were when I tried explaining to my australian friend what a chinchilla was. But this is enough to get me to never own one. They killed them in the airport from the looks of this. Its sad because it says in the article they were informs about them being endangered and still killed them.

 

[Tsunamiboy77]

why would they kill it if they are endangered?

 

[dmopar74]

why would they kill it if they are endangered?

because they were farm breed proboably and couldnt be released into the wild.

 

[PoopSmart]

Because they are afraid it will endanger their native species.


On the same site I found a lady had tried to smuggle in a bunch of plecos and 1 asian aro ($30,000 worth) into australia by means of under her skirt. She had made some sort of apron that held the fish in bags inside of pockets that lined the inside. She got 90 days of community service.

 

[Tsunamiboy77]

On the same site I found a lady had tried to smuggle in a bunch of plecos and 1 asian aro ($30,000 worth) into australia by means of under her skirt. She had made some sort of apron that held the fish in bags inside of pockets that lined the inside. She got 90 days of community service.

ya i think ive read about that in a magazine

 

[Onion01]

Definitely not, but for the purposes of educating everyone on it, I would just want some people to step forward and maybe share what happened.

Here is what I found about some asians being snuck into australia. This is very sad, but they are the strictest of all continents due to their quarantine act set up to preserve their natural wildlife. Steve Irwin was basically the face of that. I recall how strict they were when I tried explaining to my australian friend what a chinchilla was. But this is enough to get me to never own one. They killed them in the airport from the looks of this. Its sad because it says in the article they were informs about them being endangered and still killed them.

jeez, that hurt just looking at it