765 signatures as of now. I've been out with mono all week, so haven't had a chance to share this any more than I have already.
Will try some stuff this week.
Will try some stuff this week.
Petition to legalize the Asian Arowana (USA)
- Thread starter Oompa Loompa
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Signed. Just out of curiosity because I've watched many of his YouTube videos. What happened with Uarujoey and mfk?
Perhaps RD hurt made him mad and he left because of it? A funny idea but an idea that could work as rd does not sugar coat his words.
TBH, I don't know. I respect the guy, and I know plenty of others do too. There was something going on about screenshots and some non-PC remarks a while back, but I never saw them. I don't know him personally so can't judge him in that sense, but he knows what he's talking about.
Currently, the only listed species on CITES are Scleropages inscriptus and Scleropages formosus. Both are Appendix I, meaning they can't be transferred without being certified, coming from a certified farm, and containing a microchip ID.
There is/was a proposal to split Scleropages formosus up into four species (formosus, macrocephalus, legendrei, and aureus), but AFAIK neither the US gov't nor CITES recognizes these as individual species.
The Endangered Species Act only lists Scleropages formosus, so by technicality you might be able to import a CITES-approved inscriptus. The issue you would run into though, is FWS not recognizing the two species as different. Scleropages formosus was added to the ESA in 1973, whereas Scleropages inscriptus was only recognized as its own species in 2012. So, it's likely that FWS still considers inscriptus to be formosus, just like the other species.
But to answer your question, the proposal would be to make all species of asian arowana legal for import, so long as they are certified by CITES and microchipped for identity.
