its hard for us in the US to run something like that from here and if it was in another country everyone would be about profit i just want to try and get them off of the C.I.T.E.S.
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On top of all that, all baby aros must be tagged and registered w CITIES as long as they are captive bred. All these costs is precisely whay farms are allowed to sell aros in the hobby. Running a farm is extremely costly so unless you have like Nike or Microsoft sponsoring you theres very little chance of a non profit organization lasting in this area.
Also note you said breeding plan... you DO need a breeders license to do that....rottbo said:well a couple of us mfk members were discussing the possibility of starting a non-profit breeding program in the US it would have to be non-profit and it would have to be dedicated to reintroducing them into the wild i am just looking for feed back if anyone would be interested in helping or donating time or money with a program like this we could theoretically get asian aros off the C.I.T.E.S. list it would probally take ten years or more though but who cares lets get it going maybe it could work maybe it wont but no one elase is going to do it if we dont lets make this fish available to all i will donate the space for breeding if we can get it going bbut i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anyone wanting to help if we try this out please pm me i cant do this alone and moral support is not enough help
i know that y i sasid i wouldnt be needing a sellers license i never said anything about not getting abreeders license
that was my bad I read that wrong. Anyways I hope none is taking this debat personally cuse I still like to keep peace with everyone even though there is disagreement.rottbo said:
Anyways that is what you are told and what I posted is what I have been told thats all there is to it.
rottbo said:
well... u have to think abt what will occur when u try such a thing. Baby aros are not good travellers... over here we ship them only at sizes 6 inches and above and even then some dont make it if its to countries like Canada and UK.
Even a truck ride of 4hrs can kill them. What more a long flight?
And to breed them u will need aros of at least 4yrs of age. Plus a huge pond and the know how of breeding them. They arent like silvers and don't breed just like that. To even get such aros of such age will be a ton of red tape.
Farms are reluctant to sell such aros at all. A new farm that was recently set up here spent at least half a million US dollars just to be able to get a about a hundred aros for breeding and more than half are not even of breeding age yet. The first batch of captive breds are only expected in several years from now.
How are u to incur such costs? Not to mention red tape?
Plus it will not be backed by CITIES as S.Formosus is not considered endangered to the point of the need for reintroduction. In fact the green and other lower grade varieties are fairly common.
like i said it would take alot of time and money thats why i gave up on the idea by myself but if enough commited people were involved it would be easier still hard though and money is not that hard to raise especially for worthy causes
IoStrisciare said:
tell people why it wont work if you read all the facts the only people that are set up and able to ALREADY set aros back into the wild are the farms
i just cant see why the farms dont want to give something back to a great fish that has given them so much
most other companys would have great plesure in showing the world that they are returning aros to the wild
