I'm not asking if they're banned
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whew... just when i'm beginning to love the life here in US and think how perfect it is, i get a wake up call and suddenly miss home... where everything is legal>
actually not everything, but u cud get almost anything u want with the right people and amount. hehe!
Red Snakehead/Giant snakeheads there are everywhere:/
and some even eat a certain specie and not consider it taboo.. hehe!
memories of my old 26" which i raised back in 5th grade. . . =/
actually not everything, but u cud get almost anything u want with the right people and amount. hehe!Red Snakehead/Giant snakeheads there are everywhere:/
and some even eat a certain specie and not consider it taboo.. hehe!
memories of my old 26" which i raised back in 5th grade. . . =/
Lorinser925;1777919; said:
Do a little research budd before you spew out junk.
groovitudedude;1778296; said:
Are you kidding me? The only person in my state that has been caught with a SH got a $25 fine!
where did you hear that ,what harm could it do . i have seen them for sale they must be legal here .Freakdaddy;1778271; said:Why not try and find a Bowfin that's the closet thing to a Channa you'll find in
the states now.
They're banned in the UK
frasertheking;1778421; said:
where??
may have been PFK .I think they were banned a couple of years ago cos they can survive our winters.
lookee.. http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/pages/item.php?news=958
i saw one for sale about a week ago on the neti tried to report someone for having one a while back and the fish and wildlife people told me to call the feds. they gave me the number and i did. i told them that the person had some and the guys reply was "so what would you like me to do?" he said it is NOT illegal to kepp them, but it is illegal to sell them. just call your local fish and wildlife and find out the details. i can buy and own them where im from, i just cant sell or distribute.
freakdaddy you are correct , bowfin are in fact banned / restricted to license in UK , due to possible survival of our winters.
also all Channa are banned in Scotland only , this is due to the same bill restricting cold water fishes and a mistake by the Scottish gov , in the england they listed Channa Argus only, as invasive , but in Scotland whoever wrote the bill simply wrote Channa , this officially leaves all Channa illegal to own without license in Scotland , i think the gov knows this is a mistake and hence as done nothing to enforce the law as far as any other Channa other than Argus goes , however they are probably thinking that when the e.u wide ban comes in stopping all wild importation of Channa throughout Europe this will sort its self out anyway , after all there is relatively few people breeding Channa esp. in the UK ,so after the e.u ban i think you will be very lucky to see a Channa in a lfs again , most will be sold via classified adds ect , also if you look at the trends in things like zebra plecs , black arowana ect , when theese things become rare you can expect prices to be through the roof , i clearly remember buying my first black arowana for £12 and sold it later for £200 , if we want to see any future in Channa throughout the hobby we all need to take a leaf out of freakdaddy pascal uli ect ects book and try our hand at breeding these great fish before its too late , unfortunately the only ones that are commercially breed are the giants for the food industry in Asia , undoubtedly these will still make there way over here, so breeding these is not as important as the dwarf and medium size channa
also all Channa are banned in Scotland only , this is due to the same bill restricting cold water fishes and a mistake by the Scottish gov , in the england they listed Channa Argus only, as invasive , but in Scotland whoever wrote the bill simply wrote Channa , this officially leaves all Channa illegal to own without license in Scotland , i think the gov knows this is a mistake and hence as done nothing to enforce the law as far as any other Channa other than Argus goes , however they are probably thinking that when the e.u wide ban comes in stopping all wild importation of Channa throughout Europe this will sort its self out anyway , after all there is relatively few people breeding Channa esp. in the UK ,so after the e.u ban i think you will be very lucky to see a Channa in a lfs again , most will be sold via classified adds ect , also if you look at the trends in things like zebra plecs , black arowana ect , when theese things become rare you can expect prices to be through the roof , i clearly remember buying my first black arowana for £12 and sold it later for £200 , if we want to see any future in Channa throughout the hobby we all need to take a leaf out of freakdaddy pascal uli ect ects book and try our hand at breeding these great fish before its too late , unfortunately the only ones that are commercially breed are the giants for the food industry in Asia , undoubtedly these will still make there way over here, so breeding these is not as important as the dwarf and medium size channa
