Arowana without Microchips Seized!

[fsc46]

just out of curiosity why do you agree with them? what would be wrong with what im talking about. people could breed them and help replenish the population, i definatly dont see how this could hurt anything, do you?

good point. if we are allowed to keep captive breed asian's then there wouldn't be a need for people to buy the endangered, wild ones.

which could make them less desirable IMO. it seems that everyone wants what they can't have. imagine if silver aro's where illegal, everyone would pay top dollar for them too.

what makes the red asian so popular is that everyone wants to be the first to have it cause they know no one else will get it for years to come and they can brag about it forever. oh and the beautiful red color.

 

[dleomd]

Hey anybody know if Asian aros are sold in Canada?

 

[David R]

^ Yes they are, Canada has some common snese

IMO, and you're all going to hate to hear this, GOOD JOB!!! I hope the guy trying to export them gets a good reaming by the authorities. The whole microchipping and certifying thing has been set up so the hobby can legally keep and trade these fish knowing that they have come from a captive bred source and have had no impact on wild populations. If people aren't going to comply with this then I have no sympathy for them and think they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law before they ruin it for the rest of us. And shame on anyone who buys an aro with out a chip and certificate!

If they're chipped for selling purposes, I wonder why we can't have them in the US? Especially if they're the "legal" ones

Honestly? Because the people who make your laws are as foolish as the people who run CITES. The fact that your law (and CITES) make no distinction between captive bred and wild collected plants/animals is only going to hinder the survival of the species. Even Zoodiver has even admitted that the captive bred aros are so far removed from their wild origins that there is no point in releasing them back into the wild, so why should the still be treated as an endangered species? They're hardly rare, you could find them in just about every fish shop across asia. The reason they are still endangered is because the countries they are native to aren't interested in preserving their habitats and restocking the rivers. Its obvious that they aren't difficult to breed as commercial businesses do it on a large scale, so really the government could/should set up their own facility to breed and release wild types (as the New Zealand government has done with tuatara and kiwi).

 

[WHITECJ2OW]

just out of curiosity why do you agree with them? what would be wrong with what im talking about. people could breed them and help replenish the population, i definatly dont see how this could hurt anything, do you?

I read an article a couple years back about people fishing up silver arowanas in the wild and cutting off there heads to get the babies while they are still in the mouth, now this is a common aro. Imagine when all the demand goes sky high if the US where to legalize the asian aros, the wild population would be at risk, even with all the captive breeding farms.

 

[David R]

I read an article a couple years back about people fishing up silver arowanas in the wild and cutting off there heads to get the babies while they are still in the mouth, now this is a common aro. Imagine when all the demand goes sky high if the US where to legalize the asian aros, the wild population would be at risk, even with all the captive breeding farms.

Not if they get stopped at the border and scanned for microchips and the scumbags that caught them thrown in jail.
That and the fact that the wild types aren't half as colourful as the captive bred ones so won't be worth anywhere near as much.

 

[DonVitto123]

ouch

 

[DonVitto123]

sucks you guys cant have asains i have 2

 

[Hao]

sucks

 

[uting]

guys, this article is 3 years old.

 

[Hao]

sucks you guys cant have asains i have 2

dont rub it in