I wonder if you can make a deal with a zoo or public aquarium, buy them 2 or 3 and have them give you one back?
asian aro w/CITES
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Thanks for posting such valuable information. It's a shame that farms in southeast asia are breeding arowanas purely for comercial purpose. If only there were regulations where farms here are required to release a portion of these farm breed arowanas back to their natural habitat.
It seems that if you can prove the following reason stated in the letter:
"In the past, the USFWS has approved the import of small numbers of bonytongue for research and captive-breeding purposes. The applicants in these cases are involved in
research or re-introduction programs that should help bolster wild
populations of the fish".
And you are conducting the breeding program in a certifiable place, it might be possible.
Makes me wonder now what happened to this program? I think I'm going to follow through with that question into that letter. Well see what happens.
"In the past, the USFWS has approved the import of small numbers of bonytongue for research and captive-breeding purposes. The applicants in these cases are involved in
research or re-introduction programs that should help bolster wild
populations of the fish".
And you are conducting the breeding program in a certifiable place, it might be possible.
Makes me wonder now what happened to this program? I think I'm going to follow through with that question into that letter. Well see what happens.
xrtg said:Thanks for posting such valuable information. It's a shame that farms in southeast asia are breeding arowanas purely for comercial purpose. If only there were regulations where farms here are required to release a portion of these farm breed arowanas back to their natural habitat.
Honestly , you cant really blame them since they are in it for commercial purposes.
IMHO, the government that has jurisiction over the rivers where aros are native at and the aro farms are the ones that should flex their muscle and try to "coax" or maybe subsidize them so they will have an initiative to do a restocking program.
The same government(s) should also tighten down on catching arowanas in the river. Couple of years back , i hear that security is lax and you could catch asian aros in the river. I hope things have changed now.
Why don't the government require the farms to return a certain quota into the wild. Say 10% of harvest goes back to the wild? Then again, poaching could possibly be an issue as well. Sigh. Back to the drawing board.
