Banned fish

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TaratronVaeVictus

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So in AZ you can't own a piranha, but you can pacu, and these are what fishermen regularly pull out from Lake Pleasant or Havasu and the like. You can't own a freshwater stingray, but you can own ID sharks (the panagius cats that get over four feet long!). You can, by the end of October with the new laws being passed, own a saltwater shark. But no blind cave tetras without a permit.

Am I the only one who does not get this?
 
I think the reasons you can't legally own piranha's is beause u can let them go in a lake and they can live year round, because the temp of the lakes remain 75+- a few year around. Unlike the middle and northern states.
 
Exactly what mauls said, specific fish are banned in places where if the fish is released in the wild has a chance of survival and dominating the local ecosystem thus destroying it.
 
In AZ, however, that is pretty much every fish sold at any lfs. Goldfish, pacu, red tailed cats, neon tetras. Most all freshwater fish can survive if released into our waters here. But see, I try and use logic against the stupidity of such laws. It always fails.
 
Be careful about how you wage your complaints. In CA, someone brought up the question, "Why are fossil cats (Heteropneustus fossilis) allowed but clarias cats are not? They're related". The end result: clarias cats are still illegal but, now so are fossil cats.

Don't bring up the species that are allowed. It just draws attention to them by the people you don't want to have them noticed by.
 
rumblesushi said:
blind cave tetras are banned? hahahahahahah. Why exactly?
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I guess you never walked down a dark alley were blind cave tetras hang out.
 
This argument is moot only because no matter how much we strain our fingers typing our opinions, it won't change anything. It's not even a matter of voting. We are at the mercy of the biologists or ecologists that studies these phenomena. One thing though that we really need to be responsible with is NOT to release any of our unwanted fish in the native wildlife. I also believe that our scientists are being ovferly careful because of mistakes that's happened in the past by other countries, i.e, Australia and their feral pests, cane toads, camels, etc. The study showed that cane toads will eat the grubs that is eating all the sugar cane, so they were introduced using hearsay. The canetoads are killing alot of Australias native fauna. If that were to happen here in the US, that would be bad. Very very bad.
 
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