Lifting The Ban On Snakeheads In The U.S.A.

[Livinviggen]

Sloppied Flawed Law, you ain't kidding. It is perfectly legal to buy, sell and own Asian Arowanas everywhere except in the great US of A. Thanx
to the USFW CITIES Law. Even though most Asian Arowanas are now farm raised and are far prettier than any wild caught ones could ever hope to be. USFW still won't allow there sale or even ownership here in the USA.

WTF, it's like you have these local pooper scooper laws for dog owners and or walkers. Your neighborhood becomes clean and you don't have to look everwhere you step. Until USFW decides that they should take on saving those stupid flying crap factories, that can be as bad as a pack of barking crapping dogs - The Canadian Geese. Now there everywhere and your not allowed chase them, net or straight out shoot them, they crap everywhere and there piles are about the same in size as a mid size dog. And instead of staying in Canada where they belong and where they were endangered from there everywhere here in the US eastern seaboard. And so too is there CRAP, you can't find a State, City, County or Privately owned Park that isn't carpeted in Canadian Geese Crap. I wish someone would open a year round open hunting season on them. Now theres an animal I could kill just for the heck of it all.

I second that.
But back to the Asian Arowana has anyone spoke up about this stupid law? IE Petition? I would love a supper red some day.

 

[Hydrocyanide]

Snakeheads werent hobbiest fault

I am in agreement with this post. I have read and seen on news that the reason for snakehead being a problem is because of a couple of people releasing there young into streams and marshlands in Florida to make profit off of catching them and Samsung them to the oriental people living there. They then sale the fish for 20 - 30$ a pop and make a food out of it and a broth for their sick family members. Its said that snakehead can cure illness and disease. The import business would bring them in and it wound cost the receiving end too much money therefore the illegal dumping of the fish.
Another note is that the fish have been migrating from their indigenous countries into the united states so its not total human error that the species here are what they say "destroying ecosystems".
Mississippi river is completely over ran by silver carp on human error and the reason that the river is destroyed is because the fish is a filter fish meaning it really don't eat but because of that, the habitat can't sustain itself and the fish living there that are indigenous can't survive.
snakehead hasn't really been noted as a distinct hazard, its just that they eat other living organisms. Animals have been surviving worse than that so the invasion would just in my opinion be a test on the ecosystem and that survival is a part of the evolution of the fish in the first place. Fish as well as other organisms have been on earth for who knows how long and came this far. Its not a hazard to me is evolution.
Its inevitable.

 

[Ash]

The problem with the snakeheads in the ecosystem is that they are outcompeting other animals for the same food source which in the long will cause a problem unless the native species of fish are able to find a new niche. Not to mention they eat up almost every living thing in some of the smaller ponds they are found in. A lot of these bans are not just because of hobbyist - many of them are due to idiots trying to make money (while hurricane andrew contributed to the lionfish issue along the east coast so did dive operations - they released them because tourist thought they looked pretty and hoped more people would dive/snorkel with their company if they can see these pretty fish), hobbiest, governments, ships that carry ballast water, importers and exporters, black markets- there are a variety of reasons that species get banned but its typically the comibnation that leads to the ban. Here in Florida there have been enough cases of fish farm, import/export and hobbiest relase (even when accidental or through run off) of so manyvarieties of animals they easily find ways to warrant the bans. Bans are also put in place based on research and not release (such as Rays other then the atlantic being banned or wels catfish bans) The biggest problem with trying to get these unbanned is not only CITIES but the lacey act that coinsides with cities and then the federal and local laws that coincide with those. Its not a simple one law issue. Its starts on a worldwide level and shrinks all the way down to the local level. Not to mention the science and research you need to put together to get something removed from the larger laws. Its a very complicated process.

 

[MN_Rebel]

The problem with the snakeheads in the ecosystem is that they are outcompeting other animals for the same food source which in the long will cause a problem unless the native species of fish are able to find a new niche. Not to mention they eat up almost every living thing in some of the smaller ponds they are found in. A lot of these bans are not just because of hobbyist - many of them are due to idiots trying to make money (while hurricane andrew contributed to the lionfish issue along the east coast so did dive operations - they released them because tourist thought they looked pretty and hoped more people would dive/snorkel with their company if they can see these pretty fish), hobbiest, governments, ships that carry ballast water, importers and exporters, black markets- there are a variety of reasons that species get banned but its typically the comibnation that leads to the ban. Here in Florida there have been enough cases of fish farm, import/export and hobbiest relase (even when accidental or through run off) of so manyvarieties of animals they easily find ways to warrant the bans. Bans are also put in place based on research and not release (such as Rays other then the atlantic being banned or wels catfish bans) The biggest problem with trying to get these unbanned is not only CITIES but the lacey act that coinsides with cities and then the federal and local laws that coincide with those. Its not a simple one law issue. Its starts on a worldwide level and shrinks all the way down to the local level. Not to mention the science and research you need to put together to get something removed from the larger laws. Its a very complicated process.

Really? We have a problem with the snakeheads ruining the ecosystems? That is where misinformation comes in and I'm sure the media play a huge role in it.

 

[Pole]

What I believe is that the Northern snakehead has been established in the US for decades, maybe even longer. It is rather suspicious that all of these sightings have appeared so suddenly; couldn't have been magic.

 

[Adamrhh]

All I really want is to make Arowana (of all types) legal.. No reason Canada can have Asian Arowana but the US can't. That makes zero sense.

 

[MN_Rebel]

What I believe is that the Northern snakehead has been established in the US for decades, maybe even longer. It is rather suspicious that all of these sightings have appeared so suddenly; couldn't have been magic.

And bullseye snakeheads has been established in the US even longer than the northern snakeheads, but nobody mentioned of them.

 

[Pole]

True, forgot bout those. No one really cared bout them, until a guy sent a pic to a guy to ID them

 

[Pole]

I bet there are lots of introduced species around the world with humans still unaware;we can probably expect another snakehead style panic.

 

[Siddons11]

Just go catch some bowfin.. theyre cooler anyway...

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